Planning Your Website - Identifying Your Audience
Defining the audience is a key step in the website planning process. The audience is the group of people who are expected to visit your website, the market being targeted. These people will be viewing the website for a specific reason and it is important to know exactly what they are looking for when they visit the site. A clearly defined purpose or goal of the site as well as an understanding of what visitors want to do/feel when they come to your site will help to identify the target audience.
Taking into account the characteristics of the audience will allow an effective website to be created that will deliver the desired content to the target audience.