Managing Timelines & Web Design
Website development time lines are good. A time line will help you stay on task and in budget. Whether you want it yesterday or are working it into next year’s budget, setting milestones and dates for major website deliver-ables will keep budget and frustrations to a minimum. If you expect something immediately, make sure that your wish list is compatible for this, otherwise you may end up with a product done the quick and dirty way and not the best way. You’ll pay for this later as the website needs updating, expansion or greater capabilities. On the other spectrum, web development that takes too long (often due to too many cooks in the kitchen, lack of scope, or too big of scope) can be detrimental to budgets, enthusiasm and website success. For larger projects, break them into phases, each with its own goals and milestones. Be accountable for your own deliver-ables, like content and corporate logos/images. This way your web development team can be held accountable to their deadlines.
- When do you want to develop and launch the site?
- Is this realistic? Can you collect the information you want by then?