Establishing roles and responsibilities

- When building a custom site,…especially if it's for a client,…it's important to clearly define roles and responsibilities…before the project gets under way.…Here, I like to make a clear separation between two groups.…Content Creators and Technical Implementers.…The Content Creators will mainly focus on creating,…curating, managing, and publishing content…while the Technical Implementers will focus on design,…development and site deployment.…In a typical small scale client project,…the client or client staff will be…in the Content Creator group.…

They will be responsible for writing and publishing…the content and making sure everything is correct.…That's not to say they are the only people…looking at the content, you will also look…at every piece of content and make sure…everything is done correctly.…But for an effective work flow, it's important…to familiarize the client with the back end…of the CMS as quickly as possible.…And this is best done by having them…publish content directly to the site.…We'll talk more about this later in the chapter.…