When you set out to build a successful web site, the most important thing you can do is define your goals and strategy. Frequently, web sites are deep into the design phase before anyone opens a dialogue about intent.

Defining the vision of your successful web venture before you begin will anchor the entire project. Without a clearly mapped out (and completely understood) project overview, you can't possibly know what you're building, and, frankly, there's no reason to start.

Plan what you intend to say. Plan the services you intend to offer. Know where your market is and define your strategy for reaching that market. These are parts of the web development process that are skipped by bargain builders and overly cost conscious owners who think their web site should be as close to free as they can get it.

Programming the site itself begins when a clear vision of the site has been established. Savvy programmers will work through the project building functions that are seamlessly integrated into your web pages and user interfaces, all the while maintaining a capacity for Extensibility.

If your new web site needs alterations, revisions, adjustments (and it probably will) the last thing you'll want to hear is that you're stuck... that this or that can't be done. Programming with flexibility and extensibility makes it possible to revise programs, even months or years down the road.

Elsewhere we mentioned short and long term goals. Suppose you got a web site with a simple automatic response email program built in. It serves your short term purpose, but, long term, you intend to add a complete email campaign system.

Now imagine that you call your web development team to launch that email campaign system. This is not the time to find out that no mechanisms are in place for the upgrade, that an entirely new database needs to be created, that the old auto response system will be down for three days, and half of your saved email addresses are likely going to be lost in the changeover.

At eStar our approach to development is guided case by case through a well defined project overview, which accounts for short and long term goals, which maintains extensibility, and eliminates surprises down the road. We call it the Professional approach.

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