If you eliminate those steps in that order, you're going to have unhappy clients. Understanding how users relate to a web site is the hardest part of the whole thing. You learn by doing it and by understanding how humans cognitively relate to information. There's a reason why when you look at a newspaper, the lead story is in the upper right-hand corner. In English, we read from left to right, stopping on the right-hand side.
Computer screens are different.
You have to think not necessarily linearly but in terms of depth, because web sites are deep. You have to think about how people will see information and whether it feels comfortable or not. Then you have a designer to figure out the best way to display that information, and within that, you have to take technical considerations into account. I draw up the plans. I give them to the construction workers.