Website Redesign Status Report
This is a practical guide to building a status report for a website redesign project — a periodic summary of progress, issues and next steps, adapted to the realities of redesigning an existing website.
What a Status Report is
A status report is a periodic summary of progress, issues and next steps. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Status Report. 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 status report 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
- Overall RAG status
- Progress vs plan
- Key risks and issues
- Budget/schedule health
- Decisions needed
Website Redesign-specific considerations
Tailor the status report to the risks that most often derail website redesign projects:
- Scope creep
- Content migration
- SEO preservation
Example
On a real website redesign project, the status report 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.