Website budget planner
Summary
Record the following:
- Site name
- URL
- Budget holder
- Content manager
- Financial year
- Total annual budget
Explanation for the budget sheet
- There are 3 ways to add cost to a role or activity – as an FTE (using an estimate for salary), as an agreed number of hours per month or at a fixed price.
- 1 person may fill several roles or a role may not be needed. Delete rows or edit as needed.
- The role description gives an idea of responsibilities. It’s a guide only.
- In maintenance and hosting, the service charge might cover all of the activities listed, but it’s good to check.
Annual website budget costing
For each subheading, you could record:
- the FTE portion, such as 0.5
- the estimated salary
- the estimated cost (the portion of the estimated salary).
Or you could record:
- the hours per month
- the rate
- the cost.
Or you could record the fixed price in dollars per year.
Content management – role descriptions
Content manager
Reporting to business, liaison with resources and vendors, promotion, eliciting feedback from users, responding to queries, reviewing web analytics, managing work plan, reviewing content and fixing broken links, managing enhancements and defects log, and prioritising work.
Subject matter expertise
Writing new content and reviewing existing content for currency and quality.
Web editing
Editing content for web applying DIA style guide and Plain English. Structuring content for the web. Loading content into the system. Ensuring loaded content is web standards compliant. Writing text descriptions for complex diagrams and other non-text elements. Writing metadata.
Publishing
Performing final checks on new or modified content and publishing to the live website.
Specialist content services
Te reo Māori writing and editing, and expertise in the appropriate representation of tikanga Māori. Translation and deaf sign language interpretation. Provision of brand-appropriate imagery. Production of web-ready video, captioned and transcribed. Production of animated and interactive content.
Publishing support – role descriptions
CMS training
Training for new users or to gradually improve competency.
CMS support
Resolving CMS problems and helping with technical publishing.
Quality checking
Performing periodic spot checks and reporting issues identified to the content manager. E.g. link checks, publishing errors or style.
Maintenance and hosting – role descriptions
Service charge
If you have a Service Level Agreement you may have a fixed fee for all maintenance and hosting tasks. Ask your vendor.
CMS updates
Applying security and version updates to CMS and database, using change control.
Testing
Of any updates prior to release.
CMS administration
Setting up users or making configuration changes to the CMS. Also synchronising the development, QA and production sites.
System administration
Includes updates to operating system, backups and disaster recovery.
Traffic costs
No description provided.
Server costs
Cost for hardware and any software licence costs.
Domain registrations
For non .govt domains only.
Work plan enhancements
Insert your objectives and a description of activities
Summary
Operating costs + staff costs + enhancements budget = sub total + contingency at 10% = total annual budget
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