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当我们和客户谈论一个Drupal新的B2B网站时，他们通常会专注于设计和功能。但是在决定设计和功能之前，我们通常会建议客户做一些调查。这会使得我们的客户在网站规划阶段就有一个正确的方向。

理解你的客户

我们帮助过很多B2B（business to business）客户设计与开发网站。大多数的网站都是基于Drupal开发的。那今天就让我们来总结一下什么是一个好的B2B公司网站。

明确网站的目标

在我们决定如何设计和建站之前，我们应该要明确建立这个网站的目的是什么，这是网站开发初期最需要明确的问题。一般来说，一个B2B网站包含有以下这些目标：

If I have an English website running in the US, and I want to localize my website for the Chinese market. What should I do?  This is a real situation our clients ran into over the last few years. We have helped our clients to localize their website for Chinese market.  Below are a few tips we learned from our experience:

When we talk with our clients about a new website, they usually focus on how they want to design their website and what features they would like to have. But before we decide on the design and features, we would recommend our clients do some research. It will lead the client in the right direction when we move into website planning phase.

We have helped many of our B2B (Business to Business) clients deign and develop websites. Most of the websites were built via Drupal. We summarize our learning about what a better B2B company website is.

Drupal is a powerful content management system. It is also a good CMS for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Google is the biggest search engine in the world. But when it comes to China, Baidu is the biggest one.

When we work with our clients outside or inside China, we always discuss how to market their websites. The clients will ask us to name top 1 social media they should use. In the last two years, WeChat is always on our top 1 list. There are a lot of articles explaining what WeChat is. I won’t explain the details here. In a nutshell, WeChat is equal to Facebook + twitter + Instagram + WhatsApp.

We mentioned how to build a website for Chinese market in the previous article. We will emphasize the cloud service provider on this article.

As a Drupal-based web development agency and a remote team, we can not work without online tools. We found it is impossible to use only one tool to serve all purposes. So, We need to integrate several tools into our workflow. Each tool has its own purpose. The below are the online tools we are using:

This is the topic I haven’t written before. I think company culture is more about how you act, not how you speak. That’s why I didn't mention it in the past. It takes time to build a company culture, but it is so easy to destroy it.