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Upgrading your website: Writing User Stories

Now that we’ve identified our main users or user groups, we can start getting to the nitty-gritty of your new website.  it’s time to start writing requirements for your website keeping all of your goals and users in mind. If you’re creating a brief for your new build project one of the best things you can do is create user stories. An agency or developer doesn’t want to be told how to build it, they want to understand how you expect it to work in a variety of scenarios without using complicated, technical jargon. Usually, developers are more ‘logical thinkers’ Dani interviewed Dan Pala and Mark Byrne in our latest podcast to explain what user stories are, why they’re important and how to write them.

Upgrading your website: Identifying users and user groups.

Upgrading a website seems a daunting task, and can be something you put off for as long as possible until you’ve left yourself with as little time to prepare as possible... Whatever way you procrastinate, there’s no need to fear a website upgrade anymore! This is part two in our series of how to upgrade your CMS.  We’ll be looking at identifying your main users or user groups. For this subject, Dani interviewed Mark Byrne and Paul Jones as our subject matter experts. Part one [https://ixis.co.uk/blog/upgrading-your-cms-finding-out-why-smart-way]: Finding out your SMART website goals.