Sitejet is a website building platform that is becoming increasingly popular due to the ease with which it allows individuals, businesses and developers to create highly functional, professional and unique websites. With drag and drop simplicity and AI-powered content creation, it offers a wealth of useful tools, amongst which are advanced project management tools that help DIY builders keep on top of their projects and allow developers to manage multiple clients. In this post, we guide you through Sitejet’s advanced project management tools.
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Useful Sitejet features for all projects
Before we discuss the features that are specifically designed for developers and agencies, we will first take a look at those which are useful for all website building projects. The first of these is the Manager View. The Manager View dashboard gives users a detailed oversight of all their projects, and these can be viewed either as a traditional list or as a Kanban board, which is a popular, visual, project tracking framework used by developers. On it, you can create and organise the different stages of your projects, such as planning, design, content creation, SEO and launch, and these can be arranged in a way that suits you best, such as by task priority or by stage.
The Manager View lets you create to-do lists of the various tasks required in each stage, and provide a description of each, ensuring that nothing gets forgotten. What’s more, as you work on your site, you can update the status of each task, keeping track of progress so you always know where you are. Importantly, by default, the to-dos are displayed by their due date, helping your development keep to deadlines. For businesses and developers that want to make sure that progress stays on track, Sitejet also comes with built-in time tracking, enabling teams to keep a record of how long each task is taking.
Next to the Manager View in Sitejet’s menu, you’ll find the Templates section. Clicking on this will display the platform’s library of 140 responsive templates that you can use as a starting point to create your website. While it is not essential to use a template with Sitejet, it can save you a lot of time when it comes to finding the right website design. What’s great about the template folder is that you can preview what each template looks like on different screens (PC, tablet and mobile phone) so you get a clearer idea of how they will appear to users. If you find a template you like, using it on your website can be done with a single click.
Another helpful project management feature of Sitejet is its Domain Management dashboard. Normally, those creating websites need to go to a different part of their control panel to manage their domains, with Sitejet, however, this can all be done in the same place, making it easier to track domain statuses, assign domains to your projects and manage registrations.
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Project management tools for developers and agencies
As the Manager View allows you to see all your ongoing projects, this enables developers and agencies to manage the work they do for different clients all in one place. Individuals in teams can be assigned websites and specific tasks on website to-do lists. These can also be sorted and filtered so that people can clearly see their own task list and deadlines and can update the status of each job.
Another highly beneficial feature of Sitejet is the customer portal. This feature enables developers to communicate with their clients throughout the project while enabling the clients to provide ideas, view progress, give feedback and upload files. Clients are given their own login credentials to access the portal, and customer data, such as their name, company and role, can be inputted. For international developers, the portal can also be displayed in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Swedish. This feature ensures that clients are kept informed throughout the project and can provide their input to ensure the finished website meets their needs.
To ensure that communications are carefully managed, they are stored in a ticketing system. This messaging system store and handles emails from clients and team members, and these can be assigned to specific individuals to handle. All these communications can be searched for by keywords and tracked to make sure they have been dealt with. This enables team members to ensure that no communications are left unseen and that any input, internally or from the client, does not get lost or go unanswered.
While these features are highly beneficial for relationship management, they are not the only ones offered by Sitejet. The Overdue Tasks feature highlights jobs that need immediate attention, preventing delays that can cause problems with customers, while the Re-Engage feature enables developers and agencies to track clients who haven’t been contacted for over three months so that relationships are maintained over the long term.
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Another helpful feature of Sitejet is the ability to create automated to-do lists. For example, you can create your own checklist for each of the development stages so that when you change the status from one stage to the next, the correct list of tasks for that stage will automatically be assigned. This can prevent individuals from making errors with their own task list and ensure that all the tasks required will appear.
Agencies can also use Sitejet’s automated Workflow Customisation to manage projects. Using these presets, they can ensure that websites do not skip steps in the development process; that a site must always be assigned to someone unless it is marked as ‘Done’; and that work cannot be assigned to people who are absent. It also prevents any website from being given the status of ‘Done’ if there are unfinished messages that need looking at.
As the Sitejet platform enables clients to communicate with developers and agencies via its messages and ticketing system, another benefit is that it offers white labelling. This means agencies can customise the platform with their own branding.
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Conclusion
Whether you are an individual working on your own website, or a developer or agency working with a range of different clients, Sitejet’s advanced project management tools make it far easier to ensure that project workflows follow the right steps and that nothing is omitted during development. At the same time, the platform makes it far easier to keep on top of communications with customers, while enabling them to see the work in progress and give their input and feedback. These benefits, of course, are all in addition to the primary function of Sitejet, which is to make it far easier and quicker to develop professional websites.
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