The first step to creating your site whether it be a personal home page, a business intranet site, a website for your business or a hyper-mega-huge portal, is planning. Many developers don't write down their ideas or don't plan for the future. Ever been to a large site and had a "We are currently down due to maintenance" page? That's because they didn't plan on their site becoming so big and they weren't equipped to deal with the increase in content.

Step One - Content Types

Write down the types of content you will have for your site. Remember just because you only have a few articles so far that doesn't mean that you can't expand to tutorials, news, image-galleries, forums and the whole caboodle. The secret is to plan for the future! What kind of content would you like to write? Write them down in a big list, or do what I do and write them in Notepad like this:

Step Two - Content Within Types

Once you have a list of the kinds of content you'd like in your site, think of the sections for each content type, for example in Articles you might like to have articles about ASP or articles about what's happening in the business at the moment. For each content type write out your ideas.

... and so on. Now you have identified what kind of content your site will have and now you also have the basics of how your sites directory structure should be.