Is It Out of Scope? — Web design

Is writing extra blog posts out of scope for a web design project?

Yes. Content writing — and any monthly quota of it — is a content/SEO retainer deliverable, not a design one, even on a project that included setting up the blog itself.

If a design project included building a blog section, the client sometimes assumes ongoing content — actually writing posts, on a schedule — comes with it. Building the template and writing the ongoing content are different deliverables entirely.

Is it out of scope?

Yes. The design project's deliverable was the blog's template and structure; a recurring quota of written posts is a content retainer, a different service the design engagement never included.

Clause typically implicated

Clause typically implicated

Deliverables clause→ — Scopes the project to the blog's design and template, not an ongoing quota of written content.

Example contract wording

Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)

The project covered building the blog section itself — the template and layout. Writing a monthly quota of posts is ongoing content work, which we didn't scope. If you'd like, I can put together a content retainer proposal separately.

How MarginFlow flags it

MarginFlow flags ongoing content-writing requests outside_scope on design contracts, since a recurring content quota isn't part of any one-time design deliverable regardless of whether the blog itself was built as part of the project.

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