A New Year - A New Website

With a new year comes resolutions, aims and goals. Well I can tick off my first goal - to launch my redesigned website - http://www.assistanceplus.com.au/.

There are still things I want to improve, fix and add but it is to be an evolving thing and of course nothing is ever perfect. If I waited until I had it just right it would never be published.

I welcome you to visit my website and comment on what you like and don't like.

Progress of Assistance Plus

This is my first post to share the progress of my business - Assistance Plus.

My first major task is the redesign of my current website (image of old website) - it is now 3 years old and desperately in need of a makeover. I have been busy researching other sites, deciding what I do and don't like. Over the past 2 months I have designed at least 4 different page mockups in photoshop. Just when I think its done I have a new idea or see a new website I like.



A first attempt - too purple!

Another attempt - too green!



Finally I have my home page design finished.

Just right!

Next is the coding of my site. The program I have decided to use is dreamweaver - I attended a CAE course "Web Standard Introduction" - great to get started but there is so much more to learn - I love a challenge though and especially enjoy learning new software. I am constantly learning about current html standards, css styles, metadata, keywords etc - the learning will be ongoing.


On to the content of my website.  You would think I could just transfer all the content from my current site to the new design - but no, it needs new fresh words, extra pages of information - a complete rewrite. So this is where I am up to presently. Reviewing my content, adding the extra pages and hopefully have my new, redesigned website ready for publishing for all to see.