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Project Name

Domain Redesign

Project Chart Author

Creation Date

August 29, 2016

Last Revision Date

September 8th, 2016

Project Requestor

Smith

Project manager

Smith

Project charter Status (pending/Approved/Rejected/)

Pending

Proposed Project Start

September 5th, 2016

Proposed Project End date

March 20th , 2016

Duration

Less than one month

Proposed Spending

Approximately $300, 000 for the entire period

The figure should cover all the expenses involved in the redesign of the domain, from the payment of wages, to miscellaneous spending, to purchases of products, and other bills that need to be paid

Project Description

The domain redesign of thereliablediamonds.com will contain the following actions.

· Changing the domain from thereliablediamonds.com to thebestjewelries.com

· Change from FTP to a WordPress website

· Change the homepage content

· Add Diamonds picture display on the homepage

· Add am “about us “ page on the website

· Display phone number on the home page

· Add a request for deal of the week form.

· Perform a full system scan in order to diagnose any possible hitches with the working of the website, before it is fully launched.

Project Purpose

· This website is almost 15 years old, it needs to be redesigned to be compared to the new technologies that have been invented over the years.

· In addition, a new website will be able to allow for the upgrades available, including the ability to handle more traffic, and bug fixes, as well as manage to be more user friendly.

Project Goal & Outcome

The outcome of this project will be:

· The website will be mobile friendly which will increase traffic.

· It will be easy to make changes to it by using WordPress.

· It will be compatible with all the devices and easy to access across different hosts.

· Provide more information with less content by using pictures.

· It will be marketable by having landing pages with good content.

· By integrating the new technological upgrades with regard to website design, the new website is set to be a good manner in which to capture the attention of more and more people, by making it very user friendly.

Project Scope

The scope of project:

· The page with http:// thereliablediamonds.com/buyer-guide/diamond-education.html will be removed

· The http://www.thebestjewelries.com /new-client-form.html page will be removed.

· The new client form will be added under contact us page.

· A connect link to social media will be added on the home page: Facebook, twitter, interest and google plus.

· A blogging page will be added after contact us page.

Project Deliverables

The main reason of redesigning this domain is to bring it up to date, with good content, it would have good ranking which will turn into organic traffics which brings clients.

Furthermore, there is a need to keep the business viable amidst the stiff competition in the industry, thus, creating a kind of a website that is able to show the ability to incorporate the latest of trends as far as technology is concerned.

Benefits

The new website will be:

· Easy to access

· New content

· Compatible with all devices

· Easy to update and edit using WordPress access

· Attractive to customers

Stakeholders

· The business owner “Donald Seward”.

Risks

· Losing our current organic traffic

· We will have to redirect all the directory

· Losing first page search

· The customers might not perceive the new website interface to be as good as the old one, and this might lead to loss of the much needed customers.

· During the incorporation of the new technology into the interface of the website, some of the features of the past site might not be compatible with those of the present and therefore, the website might fail all together.

Project Team

· Maulice Thomson ( Senior web designer/Developer )

· Gabriel Nshimyumuremyi (Marketing Director)

· Thierry Smith (Project manager )

· TomDubil (Business Development Director)

Budget Requirement

The sufficient budge for this project will be over $2000 that will include the Tome staff will spend on looking for content, new plug ins and the relaunching of the website.

Communication

September 4th , 2016

Set up google document shared with everyone including stakeholder

J

September 5th , 2016

Introducing the project to the Team

B

September 6th-9th , 2016

Finding new content, pictures and new keywords

D

September 12th, 2016

Adding new content, pictures and keywords to the old website, in order to start off the transition to the new website.

Maulice

September 13th , 2016

Team reviewing the contenting before updating.

Once everyone is satisfied, the updating process will begin.

Everyone

September 13th – 15th , 2016

Adding new content to the website

This will make it attractive and easy to use since the use of pictures instead of a lot of words is self-explanatory to people.

Maulice

September 16th , 2016

Team reviewing the website and fixing any bugs, as well as making any other relevant changes to make the website as effective as possible.

Everyone

September 19th , 2016

Presenting the website to the stakeholder before lunching.

Incase Donald Seward has any issues that need to be addressed concerning the new domain, then the issue will be resolved by the relevant members of the team before the launching of the website.

Everyone

September 20th , 2016

Lunching the domain www.Thebestjewerly.com

Maulice