How to Annotate Websites for Client Feedback

What website annotation means for client review

Annotating a website for client feedback means attaching comments and notes to specific elements on a live webpage — so that everyone reviewing the site can see exactly what is being discussed, in context, without needing a separate reference document.

Traditional annotation methods — screenshot mark-ups, PDFs with comments, or screen recordings — all suffer from the same problem: they are static. By the time the designer receives and acts on the feedback, the annotation may no longer match the current state of the site.

How live website annotation works with Feedash

With a website annotation tool like Feedash, annotation happens directly on the live URL. The reviewer clicks any element on the page and writes a comment. That comment is pinned to the exact element, with the CSS selector, coordinates, viewport, and browser captured automatically.

The result is annotation that lives in the same context as the design — not in a separate document that needs to be cross-referenced.

Step-by-step: how to annotate a website for client review

1. Add the website URL to Feedash as a new project
2. Create a feedback round for the current review phase
3. Generate a share link and send it to the client
4. The client opens the link, sees the live site, and clicks to annotate
5. Your team sees all annotations in the project dashboard, in context on the site
6. Assign, action, and resolve each annotation
7. Close the round when all items are resolved

Best practices for client website annotation

Send the client a brief before they annotate — what to focus on, what stage the project is at, what is and is not in scope. This dramatically improves the quality of annotations and reduces the number of out-of-scope comments.

Use revision rounds to separate annotation sessions. Do not mix annotations from different review phases — it makes it harder to track progress and easier for old issues to re-surface.