Website Redesign Project Budget
This is a practical guide to building a project budget for a website redesign project — the approved, time-phased cost plan for the project, adapted to the realities of redesigning an existing website.
What a Project Budget is
A project budget is the approved, time-phased cost plan for the project. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Budget. 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 project budget 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
- Cost categories
- Time-phased spend
- Contingency reserve
- Cost baseline
Website Redesign-specific considerations
Tailor the project budget to the risks that most often derail website redesign projects:
- Scope creep
- Content migration
- SEO preservation
Example
On a real website redesign project, the project budget 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.