How to Turn a Dream into Reality Step One: Pre-planning and Assessment - liaise with client, determine project goals and create new website design
- asses essential development tasks
- ensure everyone is on the same page
Step Two: Execution - migrate content from old site to staging website / maintain the same information architecture
- add new website skin to the staging website
- finish essential development tasks / test critical applications
Step Three: Deployment - launch new website ( everybody smiles )
- invite others to add new content to your site / change information architecture as you please
- Repeat
How to Ruin your Professional Working Relationship with Colleagues and Clients Step One: Assessment - rush into development / place emphasis on new untested technologies ensuring ROI is reduced to a minimum
- create a new website design which conflicts with existing information architecture and media elements
Step Two: Execution - create new empty website / add as many new empty pages as possible
- reveal essential tasks to the developer
- change information architecture halfway through migration of existing content
Step Three: Deployment - scale back development goals
- back up old website
- buy a brand new domain name / use it instead of the old one
- pray to god everything works
Step Four: Damage Control - hire a teenager to wrestle old website content into the new information architecture
- desperately hack at code to fix problems your not even sure exist
- erase all the empty pages you can find
- redesign the website so old pages and old media elements can be reused with the new site.
- enter an endless bickering war to determine who’s at fault / reference none of the contracts or project roadmaps
- scream at absolutely everyone you see / send everyone vicious hate mail
- disappear without a trace
- Repeat
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