The Project Planner

Before any designer starts brainstorming, before a single line of code is written, the most important part of a web design project takes place. It is absolutely essential to the success of a good web design. What we are talking about is planning.

I know planning is not always the most exciting part of a project, but it is the most important. Bad planning can turn the best idea in the world into a lost cause.

Before you started looking for someone to design your website you may have already done some planning, probably a great deal of it. Most likely you have a business plan that you have spent considerable time on. This plan lays out your dreams and visions for your business or idea. The short and long-term goals, who your customers are and the general direction you plan on taking the business have been addressed. This plan will serve as a compass to guide your business to success.

It is no different when designing a website. A plan of action is required to ensure the success of your project. The Project Planner is the first step in the planning process. The Project Planner will ask questions pertaining to your business, your customers, the people who will be involved in your website project and more. When you take the time to carefully fill out the Project Planner it enables us to more accurately determine the goals and needs of your business or idea. This not only saves you time and money but ensures the end product is perfectly suited to your particular needs.

Filling out the Project Planner is also a requirement. Before we can write up an accurate estimate for you web project we need a solid understanding of what you need. Our customers have told us in the past that although they were not looking forward to filling it out, by the time they were done they felt it was completely worth it. We believe in it so much that when we did our own site redesign for The Web Design Workshop earlier this year we used it ourselves!

To get started click on the icon at the top of the page to download the Project Planner.