An action plan is a planned series of actions, tasks or steps designed to achieve an objective or goal - in this case the completion of a web site.

Main tasks need to be established and broken down into sub-tasks if necessary. Each task should have an estimated start and completion date.

Whatever your goals, whatever stage you are at in the decision making process, you are most likely to make progress if you break down the tasks you have to do into small steps and then identify the actions you need to take for each step.

Many action plans fail because the tasks appear too difficult. You may have several goals – but you need to break each down into a list of tasks. Set a timescale for each action – but be realistic – do not expect the impossible.

Firstly identify clear and specific goals – these could vary from ‘interview the client to discuss the required specification’ to ‘add an image and hyperlink using HTML code’ or even ‘research and discuss different web hosting packages’.

For each goal determine:

   * What actions you will take

   * How you will take action

   * Who or what will help you

   * Why you might not take action

   * When you will take action

It is a good idea to set out your action plan in either a table format with the suitable headings or as a gantt chart.

Action Plan