Building a website - 20 years on

I’ve been building websites since 1996. Almost 20 years. I’ve talked a lot about parts of the process - mainly at the technical end of things, but I can’t recall writing a whole pile about the process of building a website. Some parts change from time to time, and I’m sure the process followed today will seem antiquated in a short time. Nonetheless, I’m going to document the process of building a website from start to finish. 

Inspired by Brad Frost’s work with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food bank, I’m going to write about the work I’ll be doing with the Galway Visually Impaired Activity club. The GVI is a group of blind and visually impaired people who organise activities for their members. They don’t currently have a website in place, but that’s about to change. The group will be maintaining the site themselves, so accessibility concerns will be high on the list, and being based in Galway, we hope to make as much content as possible dhá-theangach. 

Over the next few months, I’ll post updates on the progress here, and add documents and other relevant content as we go along. GVI have agreed to allow the work on the website to be done ‘in the open’, and we’ll share as much of the work in progress as we can
But we’ll start with notes from the initial meeting with the client - I'll publish that shortly. 

That lays the groundwork for the road ahead. As with all projects, we’ll track the work to be done on a Trello board. Unlike other client projects, the Trello board will be publicly visible, and will remain available once the project has completed. It’s time to get to work.