This site came to life over crab cakes. Previously it had lived only in my brain, which was fine if I was the only one who wanted to see it, but not easily accessible through anyone else's Web browser. You look at it, it looks slick and professional, and you just go about your business. For an introduction on what to think about before you build, or rebuild, your site, click here .
Every good site needs to have a clearly defined goal or mission.
Mine was to help people create better Web sites. I've written best-selling books about computers, design, and communication in the past, so I thought about writing this as a book, but I've always believed that if you're writing about technology, you have to use that technology. My first book about DTP was produced entirely on a PC at a time when books just weren't produced that way. But it proved it could be done, and I learned so much in the process I was able to give my readers more information than other books that weren't done this way. So I decided that something about producing Web sites should be, well, a Web site.