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## **In a nutshell**
Every day, people use your web site to do all sorts of things—find your address or phone number, send you an e-mail, visit your company's website, buy something from you, make a donation, or download a free pamphlet. It is a _web site_ , after all, and not a doorstop. Your web site needs to be more than an information delivery device. It needs to be something your readers or visitors _want to be_.
The site must meet an underlying goal: to serve your visitors in one way or another. If your web site is to succeed as a business tool and an information medium, it must support the goals of the organization whose activities it serves. In order for it to do that, it has to address your readers' and viewers' needs in a meaningful way.
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