Web Development Worksheet Overview

This worksheet package gives teams a simple way to define website requirements early, so projects run faster and cost less. It starts with site-wide reference sheets that capture global features and standards your site should follow. Instead of repeating common needs on every page, you record them once and reuse them. The approach improves clarity between stakeholders and sets a baseline for scope, quality, and schedule.

After the site-wide sections, you define templates- the core page types your site will include. Templates outline layout, navigation, and shared topics. With templates established, you can plan individual pages and the relationships between them.

Treat this as a flexible tool, not an assignment. Use it as a user guide or user manual for consistent decision-making across the project.

This structure works for many organizations. For example, a city or utility building a development review portal can map content such as application forms, permit forms, a site plan checklist, design checklist, and site plan submittal steps. Teams can organize handouts, an application packet, and permit application guidance for land use, subdivision, short subdivision, plat, rezones, boundary line adjustment, and legal lot status.

You can plan sections for site plan requirements, drainage review requirements, drainage review, storm drainage system, construction stormwater, erosion and sediment control, stormwater pollution prevention, best management practices (BMP), a BMP library, stormwater manual, drainage manual, coastal stormwater supplement, and operations & maintenance guidance. Pages may cover right-of-way use permit, shoreline permit, floodplain development permit, fire permit, zoning code variance, conditional use permit, and adequate public facilities. Environmental resources could include the SEPA checklist, the wetland delineation checklist, the flood hazard certification, the FEMA elevation certificate, the critical areas compliance affidavit, and the affidavit of correction. Digital design details can reference a CAD template, electronic plan requirements, site areas worksheet, landscape bond quantity worksheet, and energy code worksheets or energy worksheets. Content might also include sewer availability, water availability, water service requirements, MS4 permittees information, green roof, permeable pavement, bioretention area, infiltration practice, rain garden, wetland, concept plan, final site plan, a site planning & design worksheet, a site development review tool, and a transmittal form or development review transmittal.

Proposal Kit complements this worksheet-driven method with document assembly, automated line-item quoting, an AI Writer to build supporting documents, and an extensive template library, helping teams produce coherent content and streamline delivery with ease of use.

Expanding on the worksheet's value, teams can use it to map regulatory touchpoints alongside content planning, so web sections align with permitting guidance and clearly show minimum requirements for each process. This is especially useful when organizing application materials for a subdivision plan, where visitors expect clear steps, a title history worksheet, a density worksheet, and a drainage plan submittal checklist. The same structure supports public works and environmental pages that explain erosion control standards, operations, and maintenance expectations, and who to contact for follow-up. By capturing these needs in site-wide references and templates, you reduce revision cycles, keep messaging consistent, and help users complete tasks on the first try.

Proposal Kit can accelerate this work by assembling consistent pages and documents from templates, auto-generating line-item quotes for related services, and using its AI Writer to write supporting content such as operations and maintenance sections or how-to guides for application materials. Teams can quickly clone patterns for different permit types, ensure checklists reflect minimum requirements, and maintain a uniform voice across the site. Whether you are a municipal agency publishing subdivision plan resources or a consulting firm building client portals for drainage plan submittal and erosion control documentation, this approach improves clarity, reduces back-and-forth, and shortens time to launch.

Further, the worksheet's structure supports governance and risk control. By first capturing site-wide standards, then defining templates, and finally detailing page relationships, teams create traceability from requirements to deliverables. This reduces scope creep, simplifies change requests, and clarifies acceptance criteria before design or development starts. It also improves findability and consistency for users, because common topics such as handouts, application materials, and permit forms are organized the same way across the site, functioning like a practical user manual.

Agencies can map the full lifecycle of a site plan: concept plan, site plan, site plan submittal, and final site plan, with clear links to minimum requirements, permitting guidance, and a review tool or site development review tool. This same flow can present steps for drainage plan submittal, erosion control, construction stormwater, and operations and maintenance after approval. Public-facing pages can group content by process-subdivision plan, plat, rezones, right-of-way items, while connecting to a title history worksheet, a density worksheet, and related checklists. The site can also streamline how a customer finds a sewer availability or water availability notice, understands electronic plan requirements, and accesses a transmittal form when sending in materials.

Consultants and developers benefit as well. The worksheets help align internal teams on digital design details, coordinate CAD template standards, and standardize the path from design checklist to site plan requirements. Clear navigation reduces support calls and accelerates development review by presenting what staff expect to see in one place.

Proposal Kit can reinforce this approach by assembling consistent sections from its template library, automating line-item quoting for scoped web work, and using its AI Writer to create supporting pages, so teams deliver a cohesive, easy-to-navigate information hub with less rework.

Writing the Web Development Worksheet Overview document

Worksheet Overview

Welcome to the Web Development Worksheet Package. The purpose of this document is to clarify our capabilities and your needs. The better a project’s requirements are defined, the less time it takes and the more efficient it is.

Building a website is complex and difficult to easily picture, so these worksheets provide a framework inside which you can describe your site. The first few sheets are called "site-wide reference sheets". They ask you to define things that all the pages on your site should contain or things that your site should do overall. Once you have listed these things, you can, if you choose, refer to them in later worksheets instead of having to describe common functionality over and over again.

The next set of worksheets asks you to define templates, or the basic types of page your site will contain. You may refer to the site-wide reference sheets when constructing the templates if you wish. The templates will provide a basic idea of what your site should look like.

Once these sheets are complete, you can use further sheets in this set to define individual pages or relationships between them. This set of sheets is a tool and not an assignment. We have designed it because we feel it aids everybody involved with the process. Use it however you feel is appropriate.