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Earlier posts have talked about your website's business requirements and user requirements. Functional requirements are the third category of requirements necessary for your website.

Functional requirements define how you want your website to work. Like the other types of requirements, a functional requirement must be so specific that someone reviewing your website can identify specifically where and how that requirement is met.

Here is the link to the podcast from my appearance on the Orange County based TalentTalk radio show with Chris Dyer:
http://talenttalk.podbean.com/2013/09/10/jason-ciment-and-steve-goldberg/

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Last week's post talked about the business requirements for your website. Those requirements include a description of the "typical" customer (or customers) that you want to visit and to use your website.  

Before going too far in your website design and development, step back and list the requirements these customers (or users) will have when they land on your website. In general, your "users" have several key requirements.

Once you have decided what you expect from your website-- general purpose, website business goals, visitors, sales, and results--you are ready to write specific business requirements. Your website developer and programmer will use these requirements to design your website and program its features and functions.

Later, you will define user requirements and the functional requirements for your website. Your business requirements drive the features and functions of your website. Begin with them.

A requirement defines--in specific and measurable terms--what you expect your website to do. If the requirement is well written, someone can test the website and identify where and how the website meets that requirement. There is no guessing.

Any serious look at your current website or a website you are developing should begin with the definition of requirements. They provide you with a critical tool for spelling out your expectations for the website.