Website Redesign Gantt Chart
This is a practical guide to building a gantt chart for a website redesign project — a bar-chart view of the schedule showing tasks, durations and dependencies, adapted to the realities of redesigning an existing 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 redesign project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Website Redesign project
Website Redesign projects live or die on redesigning an existing 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 redesign projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Task bars by start/end date
- Dependency links
- Milestones
- Owners/resources
- Baseline overlay
Website Redesign-specific considerations
Tailor the gantt chart to the risks that most often derail website redesign projects:
- Scope creep
- Content migration
- SEO preservation
Example
On a real website redesign project, the gantt chart would be shaped by redesigning an existing website. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — scope creep, content migration, SEO preservation — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.