Who will manage the project for the department? (WDS will manage the overall project, but we’ll need someone to coordinate the work on your end.)
Who is the final decision maker?
Who is responsible for writing, gathering, and maintaining the website’s content?
Prepare
Identify your main audience(s).
List, in order of priority, your audiences needs. What are they looking for on the website?
List, in order of priority, your goals for the website.
Make a list of what you like and don’t like about your current website. Look at other websites and make a list of what you like about them.
Inventory the information on your current website. Click on all the links – go through the entire website. Decide what information needs to stay, go, or be rewritten/reorganized. See the Content Inventory section below
Begin to think about your main menu items and how you’ll group or categorize your information in a way that is logical to your audience (not only yourself).
Begin to gather any logos, imagery, and photography.
