Web Design/Group Activities/Ordering Tasks for a Web Project

Web Design → Ordering Tasks for a Web Project

This page is part of the Web Design project.

Even though BaseCamp comes highly recommended from current web professionals, it's also useful (and sometimes necessary) for us to use other Project management software... and as per usual, the most used application is the Microsoft product: Microsoft Project.

Here's a task for a bit of fun that will introduce some of the fundamental skills required to use MS Project. Your task is to produce a gantt chart using the tasks listed below. To do so, we'll need to

Order the tasks below into something sensible (you might find it easiest to copy the list into a word-processor to do this).
Group the tasks smaller lists (such as 1. Requirements gathering, 2. Design phase, 3. Implementation/Testing phase, 4. Evaluation phase). Again, probably easiest to do this in a word-processor.
Add the tasks to the project
Estimate the time required for each task (don't worry too much about accuracy at this stage!), and finally
Set the precedence for each task (that is, identifying any previous tasks that need to be completed before this task can start).

Example (unordered) list of tasks

(if you can add a task that hasn't been thought of here, please do!):

Code HTML/CSS
Final product sign-off
Develop content listing and labels
Website performance testing
Develop Page Mockups in Photoshop
Test links for website
Monitor website traffic patterns
Initial client interview
Develop web-based prototype
Organize hosting for website
Usability testing with subset of target users
Develop content (with searching in mind)
Define user audience
Determine site structure
Evaluate site's performance against set goals
Develop Competitive Analysis
Describe example scenarios
Obtain sign off for design and scope
Monitor ranking in major search engines
Specify goals for website
Document design sketches
Validate HTML/CSS
Register site's domain name
Upload files to registered domain