web development project management software

keeping info & ideas straight

[hardknocks29]

Right now the small web developer I work p/t for, gets his clients to complete an Excel document to organize how they want to organize their website, etc. They layout a terrible looking sitemap, then add a worksheet for each page of the site they want to build stating desired keywords, titles, etc. Within each worksheet they then embed a Word doc with the desired text.

There has to be a better way to do layout a workable sitemap and transfer info back and forth between the client and the developer.

Thanks for your assistance in advance.

[httpwebwitch]

Word files full of text, Excel for keywords and metas and titles... actually that sounds like a pretty typical prep

I used to ask for the sitemap as XML, because I knew my client could do it, otherwise I was content with a txt file using indentation to show levels of hierarchy

But I wouldn't create a separate worksheet for each page of the site. Is that necessary? I guess it depends how complex the data is & how many fields you use