Here are a few easy tips to ensure you end up with a great website:

1. Have a great idea. A steller website doesn't always have to be something complicated or difficult. Think about your interests, what do you know would make a good site. Although not every idea translates well online sometimes a clever twist on a common site can be a real winner.

2. Do Research. Once you have what you think is a great idea, search if this site already exists. If it does, decide if this niche area can support another similar site or check if the existing sites can be improved upon.

3. Project Plan. Create a project plan outlining your website: who is your site's market? What do you wish to achieve through your site? What is your site's navigation? How do you intend on marketing your website? If you find you don't know enough about areas of your project, take the time to educate yourself, read material online, prepare yourself as much as possible before you get in touch with a webdesigner and developer.

4. Hire great service providers. This may seem obvious, but there really is a huge difference between someone who knows how to setup a joomla site and install a template design to a top web designer and developer who are amazingly talented in their fields. True professionals will deliver a slick custom design and program functionality that will work well and take the user's expereince in mind. They will give you a website that will present your businesse as a serious industry contender. There is no substitue for great work – in the end of the day, you'll have a top notch site that wows users and makes the right impression the first time.

5. Listen to your Web Designer and Web Developer. Assuming you've decided to go ahead with really top notch people, have faith in their professional advice. The designer and developer are extremely good at what they do because they have made a lot of websites and accumilated a vast knowledge on what works best and how to go about doing it. Not taking thier professional advice to heart prevents them from giving you the best possible product.

6. Be actively involved. Being there to give fast feedback to your service providers and educating yourself about your site will help you to ask the right questions and be able to make informed decisions for your site.