This series of articles is intended to help do-it-yourself web designing real estate agents plan, build, and implement a web site from scratch. There are many things that go into building a web site. Semester long courses are taught at many colleges just on certain aspects of the process. I'll try to keep it as simple as possible.

In business technology courses at college they teach there are 5 main phases to building a system. The size of the system affects the complexity of the phases. I am going to assume we are building a simple web site as agents. There are more articles out there for the advanced web guy and we'll write later for those using professionals to build their site. For now, we are going to see the 5 phases I would highly recommend each of us follow when making a new site.

• Phase 1 - Web Site Planning and Market Analysis
• Phase 2 - System Analysis
• Phase 3 - Site Design
• Phase 4 - Implementation
• Phase 5 - Support

I think a lot of us are flying by the seat of our pants and there is little direction or organization. I hope to make the process simpler. Let me know how we can accomplish that as you read the articles.