Website in a Week/end: Day 1

Plan Before You Do

A little bit of preparation goes a long way in making your website an easy (and fun) experience.

Lesson 1

Site Strategy

Before you get too far in the creation of your first website with Leadpages, make sure you take a few moments to lay out your strategy. With a solid plan, the actions you take will have bigger payoffs in a shorter amount of time.

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Lesson 2

Hosting Options

As you're putting your website together over the next few days, it's important to understand how your Leadpages website is hosted. Learn about the hosting features within Leadpages, and the situations for connecting your site to a domain or subdomain. 

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Lesson 3

Plan Your Content

With a solid content plan, you’ll be able to launch your site faster with focused content that converts. You’ll learn how to create a content map that will serve you well during the course, and lay the proper foundation for future content you create in the weeks and months ahead. 

Lesson 1

Site Strategy

About this lesson:

Before you get too far in the creation of your first website with Leadpages, make sure you take a few moments to lay out your strategy. With a solid plan, the actions you take will have bigger payoffs in a shorter amount of time.  

  • Website objectives 
  • Content goals
  • Engagement goals
  • Conversion goals
  • Target audience
  • Content plan
  • Points of conversion
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Lesson 2

Leadpages Hosting Options

About this lesson:

As you're putting your website together over the next few days, it's important to understand how your Leadpages website is hosted. Learn about the hosting features within Leadpages, and the situations for connecting your site to a domain or subdomain. This will help you determine whether your website will be found online at yourdomain.com, something.yourdomain.com, or yourname.lpages.co.  

  • Leadpages hosting included in your account
  • Connect your site to a domain
  • Connect your site to a subdomain 
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Lesson 3

Plan Your Content

About this lesson:

The most time consuming piece of creating a new website is developing the content, particularly if you are starting from scratch. With a solid content plan, however, you’ll be able to launch your site faster with focused content that converts. You’ll learn how to create a content map that will serve you well during the course, and lay the proper foundation for future content you create in the weeks and months ahead.  

  • Example of a Leadpages Site
  • Create a content map
  • Best practices for organizing your content 
  • Page creation priority
  • Avoid “coming soon” pages  

Recommended Resources:

Kendra Hall’s StoriesThatStick.com ↗ Content Mindmap ↗ (Copy to your Google Drive to modify) More website examples ↗

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