As tempting as it may be to just dive in and get started, you need to take a moment to plan your site design. Whether you want to sell children’s toys or athletic socks, things will go so much more smoothly if you take the time for mapping out your online store.
Home is the starting point of any website. It is your welcome page, your store front, the place where you convey your brand the most. Everything branches off the home page. So start by creating a list of the pages you want to include and break them into categories.
For example: Mapping Out Your Online Store Simply
This would be a simple site of course, but you don’t need to complicate things! We have the home page. From there, we will branch out into our business information, products for sale, and their respective sub-pages.
You can easily make bullet points for what you want to include on these pages. So you can quickly see if you need to create more pages for other important information.
Page Examples
An example of that would be the Order Info page. On this page, you would cover how to order from you, the payment methods you accept, and your shipping information. But then you might also want to mention returns/exchanges and your official terms & conditions and your privacy policy. That page will start to get super long!
If you’re stacking too many topics on one page, consider creating separate pages for different content, like one for return information and another for terms and privacy policies. Then you would add on to the Order Info and have sub-pages under that for these topics and create 2-3 other pages.
For Contact Us, maybe you could include sub-pages for your social media feeds or a sub-page with FAQ’s.
Choices and options for what you decide to include on your site are endless. Use the simple mapping chart above to help you organize your thoughts and to make sure that you will be including everything that you need to on your site. Use it as your starting point roadmap that will guide you to a fully finished website!
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