One way to get your site off to a great start, and probably decrease you site development time while increasing your site’s efficiency and effectiveness is to get your employees excited about your web project. Of course you are thinking, why do they need to get excited about it, and how will those claims from the first sentence come true… Get ready to say DUH.
Consider this. You walk in to an employees work area and say to them, we are redesigning/creating our website. They probably look back and say something to the effect of “I haven’t used Frontpage since college.” Your purpose with this type of interaction, whether it be in a 1 to 1 meeting as described or at a group meetingis to ramp them up by listening to their ideas. Doing this will allow you to get a different perspective and ideas on the direction you would like to go with on your site, it also gives you a good idea of what people know about your company and who you can draw on to get certain pieces of information.
Doing this before the FIRST few steps will really help your project work in a more streamlined fashion allowing you to get your developer ideas for your content areas, and the content faster and will allow you to make a site that better meets the needs of your customers. DUH.
