Project Management
November 18th, 2008 | by Conrad Walton |I’m a Project Manager when I have a day job. My skill is getting everything to come together at the same time and making it all work. That’s a skill that I’ve learned over years of building web sites.
I won’t tell you everything I know because you don’t have that much time and I have to go watch Fringe, but I will tell you a couple things to watch for when you’re trying to start a web site.
Things never go as planned. Never.
I might be getting a consulting gig for a company that wants to get a store up on the web by Thanksgiving. I thought “No problem!” before I realized exactly when Thanksgiving is. Yeah, it’s days away. And you want to do what?
Second trick of the trade, do it in phases. The web can be changed easily. If you print up 10,000 catalogs and need to make a price change, your stomach is going to hurt. If you need to add another page on a web site, just add it and change the menus. Boom. It’s done. It’s just a matter of time and effort to make changes.
Figure out what the bare minimum is that you need to get your web site started. Do that, then add on features and pages later. Don’t worry about it. Don’t make it perfect. Make it now.
I told this new gig to have all of the design work done by the end of business yesterday. They said they could have by the end of business today. It’s after 10pm and I haven’t seen anything yet.
It’s going to be an interesting project.
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