Website project outline
There’s a lot more involved with websites than often thought! Here’s an example website project outline…
Planning
- Initial project meeting
- Contract approved
- Set up project in Asana project management system
- Roles and responsibilities established
- Outline project dates suggested
Research and discovery
- Competitor and comparatives analyses
- Market analysis
- Technology analysis and review
- Site functionality defined
Structure and content
- Information architecture
- Content gathering
- Content editing
- Content types and taxonomies defined
- Categories and tagging defined
- Content inputting
- On-page SEO
- SEO meta-data
Systems set up
- Local development environment
- Git repository
- Development server set up
- Install CMS
- CMS configuration
- Install and configure required plugins
Design
- First visuals (designed in-browser)
- Client feedback
- Design revisions
- Client feedback
- Create style guide
Development
- Content transfered (if required)
- Navigation set up
- Templates created
- Custom plugins created
- Site functionality built and tested
- Set up and link social media accounts
- Accessibility checks
- Set up Google Webmaster tools
- Off-site backup
- Install security plugins
- Configure CloudFlare CDN
- Configure SSL
Testing
- Client testing
- Revisions and further client testing
- Device testing (desktop, tablet, mobile, other)
- User testing
- Site performance testing
Pre-launch
- Install site analytics
- Quality assurance
- Client testing and proofing
- DNS updates
Approval
- Client formal approval
- Exact launch date and time agreed
Post-launch
- Check third-party services are working
- Client training (if required)
- Documentation
- Site performance tweaking
- Maintenance plan