Getting a Web Development Job For Dummies by Kathleen Taylor

Author:Kathleen Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118967782
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-12-16T08:55:50+00:00

Always stack-rank your list of goals. If making money is your number one goal, that’s fine; putting it at the top of the list will help you succeed in your goal.

Note that this is not a list of what the website will accomplish. Also notice that it has no details about the website itself.

Instead, it’s a list of what you’re trying to accomplish by creating the website. The website details will be determined by whether they help accomplish the goals.

You should create a list like this for every website project and keep referring to it constantly throughout the project. The clarity you develop as a result will save you endless amounts of time, money, and hassle.

This process usually has some very valuable side effects, including

Focusing on non-web pieces of a project: When all you have at hand is a hammer, such as an expert web-development team, everything looks like a nail. Focusing on the effects that you want a site to have helps you figure out if there are things that you need, in addition to the website, to accomplish your goals. (For instance, writing a book might also help better solar projects get built — and you can promote the book on the website.)

Shooting down useless ideas: People always want to use the latest and greatest technology in their projects. This can have strong impact — but can also cost a lot of time and money. By having your goals in front of you, you only use the newest tech when it helps you accomplish what you really want to do.

Keeping the site coherent and focused: Websites are protean — they can grow and change in a million different directions. By only adding features that contribute to core goals, you help users know just what they can get from your website and keep them coming back for more.

Keeping meetings short: When every idea is equally valuable, you can spend endless hours discussing them. When you have clear goals, the most useful ones for your specific purposes float to the top.

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