When you have multiple people providing comments and change requests things can quickly get out of hand.

Can anyone recommend any effective tools/methods for managing the client review process of a website build project?

Thanks Chris - more specifically I'm looking for a tool which will allow people to mark-up web pages online in some way and then aggregate the mark-ups of multiple people and provide some workflow around those. Ever come across something like that?

Hi,

If you put the website on a publicly accessible server, then the Firefox extension Fleck will do what you want. (If you remember E-quill, now defunct after Microsoft bought them, it works a lot like that.)

This post on TechCrunch lists four more alternatives:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/10/5-ways-to-mark-up-the-web/

Disclaimer: Even though I've always considered Fleck (and services like it) potentially very useful, I've actually never tried it out myself for this purpose. I'll be curious to know what you end up using, and how it went.

francois

Thanks Ashley (long time..hope all's well!). Axure looks great for collaboration around wireframes/prototypes and requirements scoping.

I guess the problem I'm trying to solve is more around content rather than transaction-driven sites , where clients often have lots of people who want to review content and page layouts before they go live.

I was thinking that a web interface could be used to allow comments to be made on-screen and then have all comments collated and a workflow  applied so that one can manage the iterative process of receiving and implementing changes.

Online 'post-it' notes applications are half way there, but this functionality seems to be geared towards social/collaborative tagging uses. Guess we could try and adapt that concept though. Failing which we resort to rigorous enforcement of project management processes!

On 10:15:28 23 January 2008 Ashley wrote:

Hi Al

Have you come across Axure - I think that is more for prototypes / wireframes rather than actual websites though? I've never used it myself but I know people who say it's great for prototyping in a collaborate way. Have a look and see what you think.

Regards

Ashley Friedlein
CEO
E-consultancy.com

On 09:16:18 23 January 2008 AlLoehnis wrote:

Thanks Chris - more specifically I'm looking for a tool which will allow people to mark-up web pages online in some way and then aggregate the mark-ups of multiple people and provide some workflow around those. Ever come across something like that?

Very helpful - thanks

On 14:37:19 23 January 2008 fjordaan wrote:

Adapting one of the post-it style applications may be your best bet. From a cursory inspection, Diigo seems most advanced in this respect, e.g. with comment aggregation.

Wikipedia has some more web annotation applications.

francois