Plan Your Website
Gather the Pieces BEFORE Starting Your Website
Have you ever stared at a blank piece of paper not knowing what to write for your next newsletter, blog post, or the next chapter of your novel?
Or looked at a blank canvas and felt frozen and unable to start your next masterpiece?
Or scanned your pantry, at a loss as to what to make for dinner?
How much time have you wasted with inaction?
This starting, and looking, scanning and thinking is is often what happens when people start to build their website.
It can take days, weeks, or even months for website owners to make the decisions necessary to even start diving into the tech part of their website.
Do you want to ...
- Build their website, but get overwhelmed when faced with choosing their URL, colors, fonts, and wording for their website?
- Hire someone else to build their website, but then leave the website designer hanging because they don't have the critical pieces needed to start?
Often people jump into creating a website before having a plan, assets, or branding.
This delays the website design and development - whether you are building your site or you are hiring a professional.
What can happen when you aren't prepared before you dive into building a website?
- A client paid me a deposit to start their website ASAP, and then it too 9 months for them to gather everything needed to build their site!
- A client who I consult for, who planned on building her website and has been "working on it" for a year and still has mostly blank pages.building their website and a year later their website is still in the starting phase!
Instead ...
Prepare and gather everything you need BEFORE diving into building your website.
With a step-by-step process, these mini-courses will guide you through the website pre-planning process. By the end you will be ready to start building your site, or have everything ready to hand off to your website designer or developer.
Who Are These Mini-Courses For?
- Creatives, entrepreneurs, and small business owner
- Anyone designing and building their website ... or hiring someone else to build them a site
- Those of you who need a brand-new website, or are starting an overhaul of an existing site
Then you are in the right place!
Website Planning: Gather the Pieces BEFORE Starting Your Website
will give you the starting point and a clear structure to create the website you need.
After taking these mini-courses you will have ...
- Named your business, and found your domain name
- Learned how to find and choose fonts and colors for use on both your website and throughout your business
- Gathered all of your images, and visual content for your website
- Written key pieces of content for your website
- Organized all of your information so you know where to find it in the future
Make sure your website design and development goes smoothly
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Website Planning
Gather the Pieces BEFORE Starting Your Website
The mini-courses currently available include:
- Names : How to choose a business name and URL
- Colors : What is a hex code and how to choose the colors for your website
- Fonts : How to sort through Google fonts and find the right one for your project
Website Planning
~ Gather the Pieces BEFORE Starting Your Website ~
Preparing for your website is critical for three reasons:
- It makes page layout much easier if you know what information and images will go on each page
- It reduces re-work of your website if you plan it out in advance
- If you are building your website, you can focus on designing and building your site instead of being distracted by creating content and assets. Or if you are hiring a designer/developer, having all of your assets ready will help them move forward and finish your website faster, because they are not waiting for items from you during the build process.
- Choose colors and fonts
- Write your website content
- Evaluate what information you need on your website
- Organize your content
- Think about what functionality your site needs
Welcome to my course Website Planning and Enterprising Gals!
My Name is Lisa Sundell and I am a WordPress website designer.
Over the years I have talked to many people who need a website and want to build it themselves, but just don’t know where to start when building a website – from how to choose fonts and where to find the hex code for a color, to what is a domain name and where to buy one.
For the past 6 years I have designed small business and non-profit websites, and have done all of that research – which allows you to bypass all of that frustration and start building your website faster.
I love working with entrepreneurs and want to see women empowered with knowledge so they don’t need to hire a website person every time they need a small change to their site. When you do hire someone, you will have the background about your website to explain exactly what you need.
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Website Planning
Gather the Pieces BEFORE Starting Your Website
I am finishing up this course and am looking for students interested in taking it at a discount in exchange for:
- Helping me work out any bugs
- Giving me feedback so I can improve the course for future students
Frequently Asked Questions
What WordPress builder does this course use?
This course uses Elementor Pro and you will need to purchase a license (currently $49 per year). Buy Elementor Pro License Now *
If you are building an extremely basic brochure website with minimal functionality you can use the free version. I will be creating a "lite" version of this course that does not require Elementor Pro. If you are interested in that class please send a message to me.
* This is an affiliate link and I earn a small referral fee if you use it! If you do - thank you!
What WordPress theme does this course use?
For this class I will use the free Hello theme.
This theme is created by the Elementor team, so is built to work seamlessly with the Elementor builder.
It is also a lightweight theme - meaning it doesn't have "extra" features that are redundant to the features in Elementor Pro. Having fewer features means it doesn't add extra code to your website and won't slow down the loading time of your site.
Finally, as I mentioned at the beginning, it is free!
Do you offer refunds?
Not all courses are for everyone, and sometimes you need a taste of a course to know if it will work for your learning style. So watch and work through Module 1 for up to 14 days after your purchase. If you decide this course is not for you, email lisa@enterprisinggals.com. Once you have started watching Module 2, or the 14-day window has passed no refunds are given.
My "extra-special" guarantee ... If any time in the 60 days after you purchase the course if you have done all of the work and watched all of the videos, and if you realize that building your own website is not for you - you have the option to apply the purchase price of the course to a custom-designed website.
Is Enterprising Gals only open to women?
NO! While Enterprising Gals' mission is to help women with their businesses we work with everyone regardless of sex, gender identity, age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, and national origin.
I have a question before purchasing ...
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I also offer a free 20-minute call to answer any questions and make sure that Enterprising Gals is right for you.