It looks like I’m ready for the meeting on Monday.  It will be with a new client.  One who I haven’t talked to in person yet.  It seems like I have already put a lot into this project as I have created three different documents which I will give to her.  I also need to pull together a bit of a package of information that I am going to work with in order to be sure I get all the information I need from her regarding the work that I  will have to do before I really have anything further to communicate with the client.

What have I put together?  Darn good question, the first document I put together was a 1 page outline of the kind of work that I have to do to pull a website together.  That really is just something that will help me schedule my time through the process of developing the websites that I will be designing, but also give the client some idea what degree of work is involved in building a website the way that I build them.

The second document I created was based on that which just went through in more detail just what all the various “major steps” of creating a website are, and why they are so very important.  This document I think is very useful for my clients to see as they see what they are paying me for.

The third document is about what I will be looking for on our first meeting.  Now in some cases this information will be presented at the first meeting as there is little opportunity to present it prior to that first meeting.

So with all of this together, I believe I am ready for my first meeting with this new client on Monday.  And how this job goes will help me determine just how useful this information is.

So here we are, ready a day ahead of when I need to be ready, and all is looking good.

Also, I have been working on the computer that used to be the Rasku Services computer, but as Rasku Services no longer exists, it’s the Reino Rasku computer.  Put a few hours into that, which is really great.  I do some of my development work on that computer, so some of the time I put in is helpful in getting the computer working as well as I can for when I’m here and don’t have my own computer here.

I’m still working on what I want to present to clients. I’ve just written up a little one page document about what I do when I create a website for a client.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to re-develop this document as it really is designed for someone who thinks very much like myself. Not that this document is going to go away, but I’d like to have something like a 10 page package to hand out to clients when I first meet them to explain to them what I’m doing, with this being one of the pages.

This is just a brief outline of what is involved, it involves 9 major sets in “development” and one major “post development” step (totally optional, but willing to provide that for my clients).

Off of the major steps there are 22 minor steps in development, and 6 in post development, with 2 sub steps in the post development.

I really hope that my clients will look at this and actually be interested in working in this manner. It’s quite possible they will not be as this may look overwhelming.

The reason I’m doing this work is because I am meeting with a client on Monday to start the development process. I don’t know how “well” it will go in terms of schedule, but somehow it will work out, even if I do end up being a week or so late with the development.

The timeline looks a little tight for being able to develop it in a “timely manner,” but it looks like it will be possible, even with the work load of school that I currently have.