A planning document that describes what a website will do and how it will work.

A functional specification provides a web developer with enough information to choose appropriate technologies and code the site to work as intended.

The document specifies the site structure, types of content, what people will be able to do, how people will interact with the site, and how information will be processed and stored.

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