Step By Step Redesign for Congregations

Redesign Steps

Here are the steps I plan to go through. As I complete a step, it will become a link on this page, so at the end of the project this page will be a table of contents.

Planning

• Introduction
• Organize Your Dreams
• Measure Your Site: Analytics and Beyond
• Website Needs Assessments and Surveys
• Share Your Redesign Plans with Two Deliverables
• Assemble Your Redesign Team (and Determine a Budget)
• Gather resources
• Other Sites
• Project requirements
• Goals and metrics
• Creative brief
• Timeline
• Choose technology
• Choose a Web host
• Your domain names

Design

• Content audit
• Information architecture
• Branding
• Wireframes
• Comps
• Mobiles
• Usability

Development

• Initial content call
• Gather content
• Code
• Optimize
• Email

Release

• Edit
• Final check
• Launch and celebrate
• External Links
• Social media

Future-Proof

• Backing Up
• Documentation
• Policies