Website Planning Sheet

Samaresh Web Solutions
Building Web Infrastructure.
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Email: info@thesws.co

Website Planning Worksheets
Website Development Survey
This questionnaire will help you identify and articulate the overall goals of your Website redesign,
including specific questions regarding message, audience, content, look and feel, and
functionality. You may provide as much or as little information as you would like.

Please Note: The more information you provide, the more accurate our proposal will be
If you prefer, you may contact us at +91 8018202486 to discuss your project and review your
needs.

General Information

Company Name:
Locally Known As:
Existing Web Address:
Intended Web Address :
Company Address:

Primary Contact Person:

Name:
Email ID:
Skype ID:
GTalk/Yahoo Messenger :
Phone# :

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Website Planning Worksheet

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General/Defining Goals

1. What are the goals for your site; why are we building it?

2. What is the central message you want to convey through the site?

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3. What is your “wish list” of what you’d like in a site?

4. What is your budget range for this project?

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5. Provide a brief statement about your company history.

6. What products or services do you offer now and will you offer in the
future?

7. Do you have a corporate visual identity, i.e: a customized (non stock)
logo and color scheme carried out throughout your office, stationery,
business cards, etc.? (If so, please provide samples) or will you be
requiring any of these visual identity services from Samaresh web
solutions?

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Attach your logo file here…

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The Competition
We want to help you to reach more of your competition.

Who are your main competitors? If possible, please provide their URLs

What strengths do you have when put up against your competition?

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Setup

1. Registered Site Address/URL/Domain Name:

2. Additional Domain aliases (i.e. an address that forwards to your
primary site):

3. Site Title:

4. Primary site email addresses (e.g. info@youraddress.com):

5. Additional email addresses / Aliases:

6. Hosting Plan:

Visitors

1. Who is your target visiting audience?

2. Are they likely to be tech-savvy, or tech-limited?

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Content/Organization

1. What specific information do we want to offer visitors through the
site?

2. What information do we already have available that we want to
include in the site?

3. What specific sections and subsections do we know we want to
include on our site?

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4. What content do we need to provide that we don’t have yet, and
where will it come from; how will it be created/developed?

5. Do we have any slogans/statements/taglines that we want to use on
this site?

6. What resources/services, if any, do we want to offer through this
site?

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7. How do we want to structure our content; do we have a navigation
scheme in mind?

Website Content Chart

Common Theme Subsections/Notes Content Source

About Us / Who We Are
Mission
Services / Programs
Products
Resources (e.g. articles, links)
FAQs (Frequently Asked
Questions)
Quotes / Success Stories
Philosophy / Process
Calendar
Newsletter
Employment
Get
Involved/Contribute/Join
Contact Information

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Site Policies / Privacy
Clients
Staff
Donate/Fundraising
Site Map
Community

Additional Sections Subsections/Notes Content Source

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Website Navigational Model

Above is a general model of a way to diagram your web site navigation. The
number of main and sub-categories will vary from site-to site; some will have more,
some less. “Topic” (first-level) items appear on the primary navigation menu on
every page of the site; “Subtopic” (second-level) pages are additional sections of the
site that logically fall under the main navigation areas. In some cases, you may also
have additional third-level

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Feature Checklist
Check off the features that your site will require.

Select features which you would like to be placed on your website.

How many pages you have been planning on to your website? If you are intending to re-design
the website then how many pages you would like to add or delete to/from the website.

Please mention page titles…
Ex: Home / About Us / Our Products / Clients / Contact Us / Contact Us Form and others..

Website features:

How many static pages you are
expecting to be on your website?

Do you need hosting services?
Yes and Domain name
Looking for shared server /
dedicated hosting services?

Application Development

1) User submit Forms/Surveys:
2) Search capability:
3) Flash, video, audio, or other
multimedia plug-ins:
4) Animations/alternating images:
5) PowerPoint presentations:
6) Content Management System:
7) Message Boards:
8) Email Newsletter management:
9) Credit card processing/E-
commerce functionality:
10)Database integration
(datacollection or dispersal):
11)Others

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Will this site use existing content (artwork, copy, video etc) or new
content? If new, will the company provide the content, or will you need it
sourced?

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Site Look & Feel
Lets make it look awesome.

1. Do you have an existing logo to be integrated with the site?

2. Do you have any existing materials or artwork (e.g. icons,
photographs, designs, etc.) we want to integrate with the site?

3. Do you have an existing color scheme in mind for the site?

4. Examples of other sites that capture elements you like (design,
layout, usability, etc.).

5. Any other design-related ideas/themes we have for the site?

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Website Maintenance
1. How often do you anticipate the site will need updating?

2. Are there any particular site sections which will require routine /
frequent maintenance (e.g. news, calendar)?

3. Who will be responsible

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Website Promotion / Outreach
1. How can we target our site to reach our desired audience; where will
we promote it?

2. What promotional resources are currently available to us?

3. Do we want to use the site to collect visitor email addresses; how
will we put this information to use? (e.g. newsletters, updates, alerts,
etc.)

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4. How can we use the site to keep our visitors connected to our
organization or services? Is this something that makes sense for us
to do online?

5. How can we use our Internet presence to enhance our business or
service model?

Thank you for completing this questionnaire.

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