The answers to these questions are made much easier to find, given
that the questions of who will be using the system and the goals of the
system are defined. That is, if the typical user is professional at a
company that has a T1 line to the web, a Flash splash page may add
spice, but if the typical user is on a 56KB dial up line, Flash or fancy
graphics may not be appropriate.
Also, by this point the number of users that will be using the web
site is defined, so the sizing of the hardware and determination of
bandwidth needed is much easier.