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Their client companies were spending huge chunks of their budgets on what often ended up being non-functioning, incomplete or disappointing website projects. I have suffered this pain myself despite my computer science qualifications, and I’ve seen many of the 200+ small business owners I’ve mentored and coached fall into the same trap. Perhaps you think you are not one of ‘those people’ but believe me, we can all find ourselves in that predicament.\nFive years ago I established a business specifically to tackle this dilemma, so I was delighted to be asked to produce this guide. It affords me the opportunity to take what I’ve learned, tested and refined and place it in the hands of as many other small business owners as possible.\nWhilst a guide like this can never be totally comprehensive, it will cover the major areas that you need to put down in writing before starting a website development project. I hope it will be an invaluable resource that helps you formulate your brief for web development agencies/companies.\nIt relies on the premise that to maximise your chance of success, your eventual development partner needs to know where you are now. And they need to know where you want to get to, what success will look like for you, and how it will be measured. Above all else, you need to make that crystal clear. If you can do that you’ll find that most agencies/companies will be pretty good at getting you where you want to go.\nThat is where the ‘brief’ comes in – it is the best way to capture the pertinent information concisely, yet comprehensively, so everyone will be singing off the same hymn sheet.\nIf there are other members of your business whose perspective will enrich your project brief, and will ensure it is as comprehensive as you can make it, then it is a excellent idea to involve them.\nDon’t cut corners here. The problems that result will take many times longer and cost many times more to rectify. A rule of thumb us old-school software developers used was to spend 20% of the total time/budget of any project getting the requirements well documented. That is my challenge to you.\nPatricia O’Sullivan\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://ie.linkedin.com/in/pattios\" \u0014https://ie.linkedin.com/in/pattios\u0015\nP.S. If you want to skip sections of the suggested brief so be it, perhaps they are unsuited to your project, but more likely it’s because you can’t be bothered to complete them. On your head be it!\nWHAT IS WEB DEVELOPMENT?\nWebsite development, also known as website design, is the process of creating a new website or implementing changes to one already in use, e.g. adding a significant new section to a live site.\nIt is undertaken to attract and communicate with users and buyers, to enhance brands and to launch specific campaigns.\nWebsite development can include web design, web content development (also know as the copy, or words), client liaison, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development.\nWebsite development can range from developing a single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social networks. If your goal is an advanced internet or mobile application then you will n","cbCaigHrYFwwvCm3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigHrYFwwvCm3","docx",1503982,27,"English","# WHAT IS WEB DEVELOPMENT?\n## Why Write a Brief?\n### 1. A Better Job\n### 2. 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