Freelancing web development

Hey guys,

What is the first thing you do after given a task to develop a website for a client? Let's say, building a portal for them to organize their profiles, files etc within their society.

Let's keep it in a freelancer perspective.

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Pale Moon 24 - 105MB
Lucky you. Here, Firefox 24 takes 240MB for showing about:blank. adblock+ alone needs more than 100MB. The whole web is wrong.