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I directed and managed such a project for our law firm. I'm basically the main person here with real-world know-how about everything from site design, useability, content management, content writing, organizational aspects, understanding CMS as well as having great interaction with IT and technical developers for troubleshooting and dealing with all sorts of issues.
I spent more than a year evaluating law firm sites across the country, figuring out what would work best for us, and pushed and pushed for a new site. At first I was to design and develop the whole thing, but in the end we went with a consultant group who specialize in law firm sites. We got a far better product than I could produce for the level our firm is at in the legal world. Granted it cost a ton of $$$, but our CMS is outstanding and a moron could edit our site (while they could also easily destroy it)
I created a 40+ page project proposal simply for our executives and managers to review that included all my analysis, reccomendations, site mockups, lists of well design and poorly designed sites, and additional info. I'm really proud of it, I totally sold them on my abilities, and after we went with consultants they were ecstatic to receive a project plan as well put together as it was.
Working with them I posed tons of issues they'd never considered or worked with before, and they appreciated that our company had me here to understand all of their issues.
In the end we got a great site, didn't win any awards (I only say that because some real crap won from 2006 that we were included in competitions for), but awards were not really our goal. The site took our firm from looking like half-assed amateurs to 100% looking like we belong where we are in the Chicago legal world.