Before you do anything, you'd better know why you need to be online. Are you planning a full adult website endeavor or tgp website or affiliate site or a combo site?



Now that you know why you're going online, you should begin a general outline and begin brainstorming ideas amongst your partners and affiliates.

Take the list you created in Step 2 and refine it. Mark each item as being "necessary", "valuable", or as a "perk".

Create three new lists, one for each category: necessary, valuable and perk.

If you have a small budget, your list of necessary items is fairly small, and you do not see anything on your list which appears complicated or unusual for a website, then just about any good and reputable designer will suffice.

If, however, you have a large budget, a complex list of items to accomplish, and you need experience over price, then you'd be better off looking for a large firm of designers who specialize in your type of site or market.

In either case, you should ask up front (on the phone or in your first meeting) if they'll supply a rough site map and/or set of mockup designs for your proposed site. Usually a designer is more than happy to excite you with nifty pictures of your site-to-be, especially to start your own adult website.

The sticky note with your budget figure is your guide to not going overboard. Know what you can afford and what you really need.

Choosing a domain name is a very important step when planning to start your own adult website. A domain name to your online presence is as important as a name for your business was when you first began.

Start a list of domain names you think would be appropriate. Once you have six or eight of them, show them to your spouse, your friends, or anyone else who can give you a fresh perspective.

Unless your site is very simple and you were extremely prepared in the beginning (probably having done this before), you will have to have your site built in stages. Each stage should be thoroughly considered for every aspect of the site thus far.

No matter how small, every site has at least three design stages: mockup, rough draft, and the final version. Each stage allows changes to be made (even the final one)!

During this process, you should be considering the customer's point of view while visiting your soon-to-be-launched website. Will your customer want to come back?

The marketing of your adult website should begin as soon as you have an idea when it will be complete. When a finish date is set in concrete, then your marketing should begin in earnest.

Now that your site is nearly complete, you'd better find a place to put it! Your choice is web host is very important to the long-term success of your site.

All of these questions are very important. In the past, before I began hosting my own sites and customers, I would find a lot of competition and narrow it down to one provider using only questions 5-7.

Now that your adult website is complete and you have a host and domain name, you're ready to launch! If all of this happens earlier than your expected or announced date (which it should if all is well), then DO NOT launch your site before the announced time.

Once your site is open to the world, you will begin to deal with the day-to-day items of owning a website. Keeping your site up-to-date and well maintained requires time and effort.

In general, a adult website should be completely re-vamped to receive an entirely new look or design at least once a year. This helps to keep the content fresh and forces your users to take notice once more.

Step 12 - Success!

By the time you're ready for Step 11, you should have an idea of how successful your site has become and projections of how successful it will be if it keeps to its current path. Like most businesses, when you start your own adult website should start out small and become larger and larger as time passes.