Website Development Gantt Chart
This is a practical guide to building a gantt chart for a website development project — a bar-chart view of the schedule showing tasks, durations and dependencies, adapted to the realities of designing and building a new website.
What a Gantt Chart is
A gantt chart is a bar-chart view of the schedule showing tasks, durations and dependencies. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Gantt Chart. On a website development project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Website Development project
Website Development projects live or die on designing and building a new website. A well-built gantt chart gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how website development projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Task bars by start/end date
- Dependency links
- Milestones
- Owners/resources
- Baseline overlay
Website Development-specific considerations
Tailor the gantt chart to the risks that most often derail website development projects:
- Scope creep from stakeholder requests
- Content readiness delays
- Browser/device compatibility
Example
On a real website development project, the gantt chart would be shaped by designing and building a new website. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — scope creep from stakeholder requests, content readiness delays, browser/device compatibility — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.