Ask YC:How do you create a website?

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18 years ago

Does the person having an idea create the new website around his own needs(such website never existed so i'll create one so i'll get around my time on the internet more efficiently) or is the build more concerned with the future visitors the site expects?

Also,how does one start on building the website:does he create the main purpose fulfilling html elements first and then the other elements? or the systematic planned future approach?

For eg.If you were creating digg.com what would you create first the submit new url button and view the most popular and then add the other elements as time passes. or you would first the plan the whole page layout(as in final design)and then build the whole thing like categories at the top,sign in button,user pages (the way the elements appear from top to bottom on a page?

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