The Web Project Guide: Plan for Hosting | Select an Integration Partner
February 12, 2020
Two new chapter releases focused on understanding how hosting affects your web project, as well as how to choose and engage with an integration partner.
I’m Corey Vilhauer.
I’m a user experience strategist at Blend Interactive, a small shop in the heart of the Midwest, where I specialize in content strategy, information architecture, and editor/end user quality assurance.
Recent Posts
The Web Project Guide: Determine System Requirements | Select a Content Management System
January 14, 2020
More and more, strategic content planning has moved from understanding communication and organization to helping select the tools and features that will make that communication and organization work. If you’re talking about requirements, that means — hopefully — you’ve done a good chunk of work figuring out what those requirements are.
The Web Project Guide: Develop the Graphic and Interface Design | Know Your Integrations
November 22, 2019
Diving into design and tackling the tangled problem of integrations in this month’s chapter releases.
The Web Project Guide: Model Your Content | Write for People and Machines
October 10, 2019
Writing about writing (and also writing about the structure of content) in this month’s chapter launches.
The Web Project Guide: Develop a Strategy for Your Content | Organize Your Content
September 6, 2019
It’s time to get strategic and organized with the latest release. These chapters dive into developing a strategy for your content and creating a system for keeping it organized.
The Web Project Guide: Know Your Content | Gather Insight From Your Metrics
August 6, 2019
Where last month we talked about knowing our people and their motivations, this month our planned chapter releases are focused on knowing your content and its connections to your users. That’s right, it’s time to talk content inventories and analytics.
The Web Project Guide: Identify Your Audiences | Identify Outcomes and Expectations
July 2, 2019
Blend likes to begin all of our web projects – especially those that include strategy, design, or technical planning – with our “Audiences and Outcomes” workshop, which is simply an audience and expectation-focused discovery workshop that nails down the who and what of a site. This month’s chapter release focuses on those two directions: your audiences, and your outcomes/expectations.
The Web Project Guide: Form Your Team | Create a Project Plan
June 4, 2019
Two more chapters are going up, and this time we focus on better understanding who your web team is – who is going to help make these decisions for the larger project – and what that plan will look like as your ideas take shape.
The Web Project Guide: Know the Scope of the Project | Set Your Expectations
May 7, 2019
The Web Project Guide is here! To start, read our Introduction. From there, you can check out the first two chapters, which are dedicated to those very early and formative stages at the start of a web project.
Introducing: The Web Project Guide
April 2, 2019
Things will be a little slow on Eating Elephant over the next few months, as we (Deane and I) are embarking on a new writing project: The Web Project Guide.