The website scope worksheet.
Pin down goals, pages, features and budget before anyone writes a line of code. Fill it in and you’ll get more accurate quotes and far fewer surprises.
The scope worksheet
What you’re getting.
No filler. Here are the parts that do the heavy lifting, every one of them something we use ourselves on real projects.
Goals & structure
The point of the site, and every page it needs, listed once.
- The one job the site must do
- Your primary call to action
- Every page, and the three that matter most
Features & content
What it must do, and who is writing the words, the real bottleneck.
- The features you actually need now
- What is ‘phase two’, named on purpose
- What content exists vs. needs creating
Design & technical
The look, plus the domain and hosting plumbing.
- Existing brand, or start fresh?
- Sites you like, and one word why
- Domain, hosting and email to preserve
Budget & timeline
The guardrails everyone dances around, named plainly.
- A rough budget range to work within
- A real deadline, and what is driving it
- Who signs off, and who is involved
Three steps. Genuinely.
No course, no login, no faff. This is the whole method.
Fill it in before you ask for a quote.
Answer what you can; mark the rest ‘not sure yet’. That is a useful flag, not a failure.
Hand it to whoever is building.
A scoped brief gets you an accurate price instead of a hopeful guess.
Hold the finished site up to it.
Anything new mid-project is a change, decided on purpose, not absorbed by accident.
The honest answers.
The things people ask before they click download. No catch, and we mean it.
Yes, completely free with no email required. Use it whether you are building the site yourself, hiring a freelancer or briefing a studio.
Because most projects go over budget from unclear briefs, not greed. A written scope gets you accurate, comparable quotes and a shared definition of ‘done’.
Absolutely, it is the ideal way to start. Once we have a scope like this, we send a fixed-price proposal within 24 hours of a call.
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