21 Oct Website Design Project Planning Is Crucial. Learn Why!

Project management has become such a useful tool in all types of businesses. The main intent of project management is to help streamline employees and their jobs to make sure that the business runs smoothly. Project management has found itself to be quite useful in business because it makes things easier and helps remove the risk complications from someone not doing their job, or more than one person working on the same thing. Not only does project management help streamline your business but it also helps you to reduce costs. Project management is thus a crucial aspect of business.

So why is project planning crucial for website design? For the exact same reasons that it is great for your business: It will streamline the process and save you money in the long run. When it comes to website design, there is also the benefit of making sure everyone knows exactly what needs to be done, and this will make sure that your client will be absolutely happy with the completed product. If something is not to your customer’s satisfaction, then you can easily look to see who was responsible so that they can remedy the issue.

Project management helps set up timelines to show the duration and the process of the project. This will help with accountability to make sure that people understand what needs to be done and when it needs to be completed by. The project manager can use this information to let the client know how far along you are in the project. The clients can also monitor the website design process every step of the way to make sure everything is going well. Project management is great to help keep constant communication between the client and the website design staff to make sure everything is working well throughout the process.

To ensure that everything is running seamlessly, there are a few useful tips for you to keep in mind:

• Prior to starting the website design project, the client will need to ensure that all of the content has been formulated. This is essential to make sure that the project will be completed on time.
• All of the images that the client want, must be in high resolution and not pixelated, as this will improve the quality of the website’s design.
• The client must be in constant communication with the project manager. This will help to make sure that all problems are resolved in a timely manner and to help keep the client informed of what’s going on.

As you can see, project planning is essential to website design. Project planning is great to help you make sure that your staff is doing everything that they need to do, while making sure that they complete the project by the stipulated deadlines. This is also something that will help you keep an open communication channel with your clients. If you want to help ensure customer satisfaction, you will turn to project planning to help things run more smoothly.

You may find that there are clients who wish to skip the planning and discovery phase, seeing it as a waste of time and resources. In such cases, it is vital that the project manager persuades the client to invest in a proper planning phase so as to clarify their intentions, content needs and strategy. If you cannot persuade the client to allow for a discovery and planning stage, then it may be worth reconsidering working on that project.

For more information on website design and project planning, feel free to call BWD Advertising (BWD) on (011) 321 0193 or email info@bwdadvertising.co.za.