Pete as a Newspaper

Diary of a Web Developer: Wrap up a big project (hint: tie off that dangling scope)

Posted Aug 28, 10:58 AM in by Pete Karl, comments closed.

If you’re like me, you’re still learning. You’ve read a ton about web development, web project management, freelance business management, and a shit ton of Garfield comics.

You might know that when planning a project, that there should be what’s essentially a ‘hand-off plan’. In the absence of such a plan, both you and the client will suffer from the lack of direction, and the project will linger and torture you and everyone you love.

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Diary of a Web Developer: Get the Drop on web project planning & needs assessment

Posted Jun 26, 02:35 PM in by Pete Karl, comments closed.

I don’t think I’m alone here.

I work in a corporate environment; multiple projects going on at once; they need to be done yesterday; they need to serve everyone; me and my computer are the only resources.

A CRM, a CMS; They need to combine social networking with a forum and a classifieds ad model. They like what MSNBC is doing with news, but wants to add UGC and an SMS feature. They want a glorified FTP (you know, FTP but with this and this and this and this…).

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Diary of a Web Developer: Guiding the client from wireframes to design

Posted Jun 17, 10:41 AM in by Pete Karl, comments closed.

Over the past couple of months I’ve been at the head of a web site redesign project for GateHouse Media.

The site is our hub for accepting and distributing content across our media network, and so is a core element of our information systems. I’ll hereby refer to this division of GateHouse Media as the client.

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