The Complete Website Planning Guide: A step by step guide for website owners and agencies on how to create a practical and successful scope of works for your next web design project

by Darryl King

Praise for The Complete Website Planning Guide : A great, accessible and practical guide that you can quickly use to get better results from your next website build. Get to it! Would you build a house without blueprints and expect it to be perfect? That's how many people go about their web projects, with napkin drawings, spoken discussions, partly finished summaries and guides. They then wonder they don't complete it on time, it costs more than it should, and people aren't happy with it. You can be the architect of your next website project and avoid delays, scope creep, missing functionality and extra costs. In The Complete Website Planning Guide, you will learn how to easily create blueprints (a scope) for you or your client's website. It will solve many of the critical problems that occur in website development projects. After more than 20 years running a design and development agency, Darryl couldn't find a standard method that everyone could use to outline the project. Most briefs or planning methods either focus on general things like platform, hosting and general design guidelines. Many agencies or freelancers still fly by the seat of their pants using their experience to guide the project. So he wrote this guidebook as an instruction manual to create useful site plans without missing out essential requirements or needing to be overly technical. In this simple step-by-step guide he walks you through the process of establishing what the website really needs to do and shows you how to do it. Read this book before you pick a theme and try to wedge your needs into it, or you tell your designer to copy someone else's site. If you are a freelancer or agency developer, don't take on a client or quote a new project without helping them plan the site properly. Learn how to create a plan so you can avoid overruns, scope creep and lost money. This book is the very first step you need for your next web project. Download the free templates and resources and join the facebook group where you can get advice on working through your plan. You can also now buy the companion Workbook to use side by side with this book. What readers "If you are a business owner, read it, print out the templates and have these discussions with your designers. Trust me, even if you do only a few things in this guide, your outcome will be 100% better than if you just choose your site based on the pretty colours." Ed Pelgen "I am a freelancer and this is what i was looking for. Darryl has used his experience in laying out the problems faced by clients and freelancers and also given some templates and methods to follow before starting a new project" Amrinder Signh

118 pages, Paperback

Published August 18, 2017

About the author

Darryl King is the founder and CEO of Ireckon a Digital Agency that has been building high-performing websites and applications since the mid-1990s in Brisbane, Australia.

He has been the key lead on many web projects in Australia and Internationally for websites and applications ranging from just a few pages to thousands of pages for brands such as News Ltd, Red Cross and Channel 10.

Throughout his involvement in web design and development over 20 years he has seen the problems, frustrations, and dissatisfaction caused by the lack of planning.

He kept hearing clients and team members as well as other colleagues in the industry asking for a useful template and framework to produce useful plans for both sides of the process. After searching for a suitable system to use and not finding one he developed the Complete Guide to Website Planning to fill the void.

Darryl has lived in Brisbane for over 20 years, originally from New Zealand and has traveled the globe initially in his early backpacking days, gaining life experiences, but also working for many companies in USA and UK as he built Ireckon.

In recent years after selling the successful hosting company that operated alongside the agency he remodeled Ireckon to a boutique agency providing design and development but with much more focus on his passion of helping people build sites that create results by running workshops, training classes and one on one consulting.

His is now also completing fiction as well as his non-fiction and has a great passion to do more writing and create more books.

You can connect with him on twitter @ireckon or through his personal author site www.darrylking.com.au