A thread · 4 notes · Web Design
Building a site for someone.
How I run a website project for someone else: the questions first, the timeline, a one-page layout and the words.
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The Discovery Checklist: What I Ask Before Building Anyone a Website
The questions I work through before building a site for someone, grouped the way I keep them, with the handful that actually change the build pulled out on their own.
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From Kickoff to Launch: A Realistic Website Timeline
The seven phases and thirteen milestones I plan a website around, the sign-offs between them, and why I don't put week numbers on any of it until the discovery answers are in.
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Laying Out a One-Page Website: The Section Order and Why
The section order I use for a one-page site, which sections are required and which earn their place, rough sizes for each, and why the call to action sits right under the hero.
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Generating Site Content with AI Without It Reading Like AI
My old notes had a pipeline that wrote and published WordPress posts on a schedule. What I'd keep from it, what I'd throw out, and how I'd use AI for a client's site copy now.