How To Supply Website Content

Before contacting a web designer you should think of your website’s content and put your materials in order. You might have photos, badges, and texts you want to see on your website. Put them together in an easy to follow folder structure and then archive them to a zip file.

Images
Make sure your images are of high resolution or your web designer will have to decline them. Generally at least 640×480 images are fine to display on the web but the higher resolution images you provide the better. Also make sure the images you provide are free of copyright infringements. Generally, a photo you took, an image you bought on stock image sites, or an image where the author gave clear approval to the use of it are good. Be careful with downloading images from Google, they might be copyrighted.

Copy
This obvious content is left out a lots of times since there are CMS systems. You may think that once your designer has finished your website you will just put your copy up and that’s it. In fact your copy must go through your head several times before it gets refined and can be published. If you feel you are not the master of writing you may want to give this job to a copywriter. In any way, use the spell checker to avoid typos and have your copy be read by others before it goes live. The earlier you supply the copy the less “lorem ipsum” text will be on your website. Keep in mind, your designer needs to put some sort of text in place of text elements on your website otherwise your website would look awkward. In fact, website copy is part of the design.