Anyone using JD to manage large website?

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I’ve been working on a JD for my personal life (Life Admin), but am on the fence about developing one for my job/work — specifically the website I manage as ~ 50% of my job.

Background

I work for a large membership organization in communications. I was hired as a graphic designer and brought with me the job/project management system from my last job (basically each “project” gets a sequential but somewhat arbitrary job # (yyyy-mm-xx where xx is the next number sequentially in the month; so 2026-01-06 is the 6th job I’ve assigned a job number/folder).

Each job is distinct enough that this system works.

7 years ago I took on the redesign and now management and future development of our website. And the massive variability of the “jobs” associated with the site — from “change out the bio for the VP” to “v7.0 of the site” — don’t really fit the system above.

I thought JD would be a good way to collect everything — license keys, tasks, distinct “jobs” like build new events page, wishlists, etc — in one place/system.

TL;dr – is anyone using JD to ‘manage’ a website? Seeing as how there are a lot of common elements across sites (technical info, design, taxonomy, content, etc). I figured someone may have a Area/Category starting point — OR be interested in collaborating on one.

(sorry if this belongs in a different category… I’ll move if so)

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I kinda do! :wink:

Ours is probably bigger than yours, in that it’s my entire business life. And there’s obviously more to it than ‘managing a website’, in that I also manage all of our customers and marketing and accounting and everything else. So, I don’t know how useful my advice will be. Is that ironic? It might be ironic.

I use the Small Business System. But I don’t think that’d really fit your needs.

Sounds like a textbook case for the workbook/workshop process? The workbook is quicker and free.

Sorry I couldn’t be more useful. Very happy to offer guidance here as you build this out – share progress as you go?

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Sounds like a textbook case for the workbook/workshop process? The workbook is quicker and free.

Thanks I bought the 4th edition (and have long been an admirer of the system) – but as I work through might think about the workshop.

And definitely if I end up building a JD to manage the website, will definitely share some progress here.

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If you do, make sure you do it via the upgrade path in JDHQ: having a Workbook purchase already on your account should knock 25% off the price of JDU. Lemme know if you need a hand.