I’m in a position at the moment where I’m frantically writing training material for the web design course I’m teaching next year at Hirt & Carter… and at the same time, I’m working on my own business and it’s marketing and procedures.

One thing I’ve been looking into quite a bit lately is the lifecycle of a website project. That being the initial discussion with the client, all the way through to publishing the site live for the consumer. I’ve written a lifecycle based on the waterfall method of development, which while not always ideal, it has it’s pros. One of them being an easier way of keeping things on budget and time.

The main sections I came up with were:

• Initial Discussions
  From the first phone call/email to signing a contract and cost/time estimate.
• Pre-production
  Researching and spec document creation through to information architecture.
• Production
  Design, development & testing.
• Post Production
  Content insertion, focus group testing, snaglists, final tests & fixes through to launch.

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