Launching your first website is pretty difficult and responsible thing. But following below mentioned steps, you will cope well with this task.

Step 1. Searching for proper Web Design Company.

As a first step it is foundation lying one. There are many of web developers today. And it becomes hard to find a proper one, don’t hurry, see through their portfolios, compare prices and contact former clients for reference.

Step 2. Working out and registering domain name.

Choose name wisely. It has to depict your activity and help visitors to understand what you are doing. Good name will live in peoples mind and they will easily remember it. Then you have to register your domain name and pay annual fee for it. It’s like registering firm offline but much easier. Web design companies can help you to select perfect domain name.

Step 3. Webhosting – a home for your website.

There are some options in this step. Your websites home can be on shared or on separate (dedicated) server from this depends how much you will pay for your disk space annually.
Web developers usually offer a hosting service. Ask them about it.

Step 4. Be in contact before opening.

While your website is not designed yet you may ask web design company you are working with to setup your future e-mail accounts.

Step 5. “Coming soon” design.

You can also ask your web developers to design simple “Coming soon” page with a little promo text and contact form that bounded to email accounts mentioned above.

Step 6. Logo and corporate identity design.

Logo and identity design is highly important things. From this depends your company future without a doubt. It is your face and it has to be clear, nice and recognizable. Track carefully process of logo and identity design creation.

Step 7. Homepage and inner pages layouts.

Visual impact and convenient navigation is the main combination that you have to demand from web design company. Proficient web developer know what to do, but it is advised that you control this process and give your corrections.

Step 8. Coding your layouts.

If you are not a programmer you don’t have to try understanding anything of this. It’s your web developing company business. You will see their work in step 11.

Step 9. Developing CMS and backup software.

Again you don’t want to know details you just have to be sure that content management system (CMS) is convenient and backup software is reliable.

Step 10. Writing texts with key-words (will help in last step).

Copywriters can help you a lot in this step. Usually in web design companies there is such worker or they outsourcing him. He can write texts for your website that will contain key-words. This will help to raise your website’s rankings in search engines.

Step 11. Testing.

Test non-stop your website as soon as it can be tested. Web design company also test its work but, believe me if you will test too, they’ll have more work.

Step 12. Show it your family and friends.

Show ready-made website to your family and friends. Try to figure out with their help what else can be corrected before you sign a deal with web design company.

Step 13. Launching.

This is what you were waiting for so long.

Step 14. Keep it well-fed.

Website needs food to be in good form (have good rankings). And its food is content. Don’t forget to regularly add news, texts, photos, articles etc.

Step 15. Continuous promoting and search engine optimization.

And finally as any product website have to be promoted. Search engine optimization (SEO) master, which is usually web design company’s employee too, can help your website to be found more easily in vast space of the internet using key-words, unique articles, photos, tags and other things that will bring your website to first pages of Google or Yahoo search results.

Follow these steps and you will get what you need. Good luck.