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Building a user-friendly website is fairly easy as long as you always remember that the website is there for the user not you, and consider what they want to see rather than what you want to show off.

The first part of building your site should involve planning your content. Why does your website exist, what is it's purpose? What information and services will it provide? When this is clear to you, you should decide who your target audience is. Is it a site for everyone or for specialists in a particular field? Is it for young or old people? Is it for people who live in a particular area? Is it for people who are computer savvy or not? All of these factors and many more will affect how you can best build your website. But remember, your target audience will not be the only people who visit your website. It must be usable by everyone else as well.

You need to plan your content in a way that is suitable for both your target audience and the rest of the world. If you are presenting technical information to tech savvy users, you will need to write technical content that probably won't make sense to a non-tech user. To help the non-tech user, you could add explanations of the main ideas of your content as well as a glossary to help them make sense of the technical terms. If your site is for teenagers you should present your content in a way that is familiar to them, but you could add a section to explain to parents what your site does and what you are doing to keep their children safe. If your site is only useful to people who live in a certain city, say so, so that people from other places don't waste time there. Use your better judgement to make sure that everyone who visits your site will find it useful.

Once you have decided what content needs to be on your site, you should start to think about how it needs to be divided up, to form the structure of your site. Will there be just a few pages or a big collection? Can you split your content into logical sections? There are no rules here, you have to decide how best to display your content based on the content itself and who is going to be looking at it. Try to create a structure that will make sense to everybody if possible.

When your content is structured and divided into sensible pages or sections, the structure of your main navigation should become obvious to you. You need to link to your homepage, contact page and all other major pages or sections from every page on your website. The navigation menu must be consistent

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