Ten Things You Should Know Before You Redo Your Web Site

Esther Schindler wrote a great article called "Becoming Clueful". In it she highlights tips on what businesses should expect from their web developers.

1. Understand what you want
2. It Costs More and Takes Longer than You Think
3. A Web Site Has Several Pieces. Don't Cut Corners.
4. Balance Glitz and Guts
5. If You Build It, They Won't Necessarily Come
6 Avoid Bit Decay: The Site Needs Maintenance
7. Treat the Web Team as Professionals

I actually have a few more to round it out to 10

8. Content is still King. - Visitors to your site are looking for quality information. The search engines rank the relevance of your website based on it! Your site needs regularly updated, relevant content. That means you will have to dedicate time to it.

9. You get what you pay for - If you use your neighbor's sisters nephew who is in high school, it will show

10. Don't use Flash because it's 'cool' - Flash has it's place use it when there is a NEED to use it not because you like to see spinning dancing babies on your homepage.