Planning is a key factor in the Design of Your Website.

The Success of your Website is really depending on getting this first part right.
It doesn't matter if you are going to Build it Yourself or You hire a Design Company to do it for You.

You really need to Plan first and go throug the critical steps before even think about Building your own Website.

An Other essential step is to do your keyword research the right way, before even thinking about the site structure, doing this critical step of Keyword selection wil give you the right idea's about how to structure your content.

I Call this step of structuring your website for optimial results "SEO By Design"

Below are some articles to point you in the right direction, with some Tips and Trics in how to do it right...