One of the first questions when you decide to build a new website is the delivery date. You might need to meet a campaign deadline, launch in a new market, or refresh an outdated site. But a date based only on "how many pages will it have?" leaves out a significant part of the work.
A corporate brochure site and a web platform with user accounts, payments, and connections to outside systems don't run on the same timeline. A reliable answer shows what work needs to happen, what information is expected from you, and how the launch itself will be checked. We covered what to judge a finished site by in our article on the key features of a good web platform.
011. What action the site expects from visitors
Will visitors call you, fill out a quote form, or complete a transaction online? Deciding this upfront simplifies the page structure. Designing around one priority customer journey, instead of a homepage trying to serve every goal at once, makes both production and everyday use easier.
022. Whether the content is ready
Service descriptions, photos, contact details, and company statements are part of the design. Leave them for later, and approved screens may need to be reworked. Assigning content owners and deadlines from the start keeps the development team from waiting.
033. How design decisions get approved
Conflicting feedback from ten different people stretches the timeline. A single decision-maker and a consolidated feedback process speed things up. Settling the direction on the homepage and one service detail page first is more efficient than changing the design after every screen is finished.
044. Languages and integrations
A site in seven languages isn't the same page copied seven times. Text length, links, forms, and search-engine tags all need checking too. If CRM, payment, or booking connections are involved, access to those accounts and test data need to be ready from the start.
055. Mobile use and testing
A form that looks fine on a desktop needs to be tested for comfortable use on a phone too. Menus, buttons, error messages, and images are checked through real user steps. Running this alongside development, rather than leaving it for the last day, reduces the cost of problems found late.
066. Getting ready to launch
Domain, hosting, redirects for old links, and content approvals all belong in the delivery plan. For example, a business promoting five services moves faster between design and development if the content is ready from the start. If that same business later wants memberships and payments, the scope needs to be replanned.
07How Paradigma7 manages the timeline
At Paradigma7, fast progress starts with clarifying the work early and running independent tasks in parallel whenever it makes sense. We focus on cutting the waiting time between design, development, and testing. We covered the team side of this in how a global software team shortens delivery time. Rather than just giving you a date, we explain what scope and preparation that date depends on.
Take a look at our web platform service; when describing your project, share your goal, the pages you need, and the languages involved. That way the proposal is based on defined work, not a guess.
08Prepare before you request a quote
- The one priority action you want the site to drive
- The list of pages going live and which languages they'll be in
- Which content is ready and which isn't yet, and who owns it
- The single decision-maker who will collect design feedback
- The outside systems to connect and their current access status
- Any fixed launch date, and what's driving it
Written by
The Paradigma7 team
Product, engineering and operations
We are an Ankara-based team building software for Europe. Nothing here is theory: these are the processes we actually run on client projects.
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