Technical Writing Instruction Set Document Term Paper

How to create a website?
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Abstract
Nearly every business big or small requires a website to survive in the technology-based online markets. The development of the websites is simple and most important part of the marketing campaigns. This guide is written to be used as a reference for the web developers and the business owners when they plan to develop a web-based platform for their businesses. The WordPress’s open sourced platform is discussed in this guide as a development tool as it is recommended by 90% website developers.
How to create a Website?
The rapid innovations in the field of internet and use of smart devices to access the information on it have sparked a need for the development of both admin and user-friendly websites. The web platform has given the business an opportunity to operate at wider levels without worrying about capital required for the traditional marketing campaigns (Carlson & O’Cass, 2011). The purpose of this instruction set is to guide users about developing a reliable website which can easily be customized to meet the individual and unique needs of businesses and customers. The guide contains information from selecting a domain name to the successful launch of the website. In this guide, wordpress.org has been used as a universal platform for developing and customizing websites. The main steps involved in a web-development process are summarized in the following points:
* Understand the requirements of the business and the objectives to be attained by developing a website.
* Picking up a reliable domain name and webhosting provider.
* The installation of the Wordpress.org’s basic setup and CMS system.
* Designing of the website aimed at making it user-friendly and easy to navigate.
* The writing and editing of the content.
* Testing the website before the final launch.
* Website type
One of the most important steps in determining the ultimate objective of a web-development process. It includes the basic business requirements, organizational goals, and the objectives to be achieved using a website (Carlson & O’Cass, 2011). The main types of different websites are summarized in the following points:
i. Blogs: these can be an extra feature for the website or a website in their own aimed at promoting the personal or business’s image, reaching out to the customers, and providing the necessary information about the products or services offered by the organization (Lachtnain, 2011).
ii. Business Oriented: these websites are specifically designed to carry out business transactions. For some business, a single might be enough to carry out the desired operations and other require multiple pages depending on the products being offered by the organization (Lachtnain, 2011). Recently e-commerce features are also added to most of these sides. The e-commerce is the selling or purchasing of items/services using online platforms. The purchasing or selling online might seem to a be risky feature but owing to the rapid advancement in the cyber security domains these features are more secure than conventional modes of trade.
* Selection of Domain Name
The selection of name and logo for yo...