Planning a website engagement
Planning a website engagement
Agree requirements, inputs, revisions, acceptance and maintenance. Separate estimates from confirmed scope and record change impact before work begins.
Working material
Scope includes pages, content, functions and acceptance methods. Record change impact and decisions, and distinguish demonstrations, tests and released work.
Delivery and checks
Trace requirements to actual pages or outcomes and check owners and outstanding items. Provide inspectable evidence rather than a bare completion statement.
Practical notes
How to brief a digital agency
State the business, audience, pages, available material and decision-maker. Clarify budget and timing conditions and identify specific reference sections.
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How to budget for a large website
Separate layouts, migration, integration, testing and maintenance. Add discovery for unknown requirements instead of promising a fixed scope without adequate inputs.
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How to lay the right foundation for your digital asset
Establish models, routes, permissions and release recovery before adding personalisation or automation. Late foundational problems create broader rework.
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Tips for choosing a digital agency
Compare requirement understanding, samples, revision boundaries and maintenance. Use the same scope when comparing prices.
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Is this digital agency right for me?
Compare communication, scope, maintenance ownership and verifiable examples. Use a small task to assess collaboration before expanding the engagement.
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Six steps to a successful client-agency relationship
Agree inputs, consolidated feedback, decision ownership and acceptance. Explain scope-change impact and cost before implementation.