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Website Checklist

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Website Checklist

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Website hosting
- Know the monthly bandwidth limits.
- Know the cost for extra bandwidth each month.
- Read and understand the Terms of Service.
- Verify the amount of server storage allowed.
- Understand the policy regarding CGI scripts.
- Verify database access and ecommerce shopping cart access.
- Confirm your access to server logs.
Pre-launch
- Choose typography and layout.
- Check content and style.
- Check headings for where you could potentially use ligatures.
- Check for widow/orphan terms in important paragraphs.
- Correct all spelling and grammar errors.
- Use capitalisation.
- Use recurring/common phrases (e. g. 'More about X' links).
- Use variations in words.
- Check for hard-coded links to staging domain.
- Ensure no test content on site.
- Check how important pages (e. g. content items) print.
- For re-designs, ensure important old/existing URLs are redirected to relevant new URLs, if the URL scheme is changing.
- Check all 'Hidden Copy' (e. g. alt text, transcriptions, text in JavaScript functions).
- Create a custom error page.
Standards and Validation
- HTML validation.
- JavaScript validation.
- CSS validation.
SEO
- Ensure page titles make sense and have relevant keywords in them.
- Create metadata descriptions for important pages.
- Check for canonical domain issues.
- Ensure content is marked-up correctly.
- Check for target keyword usage in general content.
- Check format of URLs.
- Set up Analytics and any other packages for measuring ongoing success.
- Create an XML Sitemap.
- Configure Google Webmaster Console and Yahoo! Site Explorer.
Functional Testing
- Check all bespoke/complex functionality.
- Check search functionality (including relevance of results).
- Check page display in all browsers and operating systems.
- Test pages at different screen resolutions.
- Test all forms (e. g. contact us, blog comments), including anti-spam features, response emails/text.
- Test without JavaScript, Flash, and other plug-ins.
- Verify all hyperlinks.
Security/Risk
- Configure backup schedule, and test recovery from backup.
- Protect any sensitive pages.
- Use robots. txt where necessary.
- Perform security/penetration test.
- Turn-off verbose error reporting.
- Check disk space capacity.
- Set-up email/SMS monitoring/alerts for errors and server warnings.
Performance
- Test your page load speed.
- Check image optimisation.
- Check and implement caching.
- Minify/compress static (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) files.
- Optimise your CSS.
- Check correct database indexing.
- Check configuration at every level (Web server, Database)
- Configure server-based logging/measurement tools.
Post-Launch
- Use social marketing: Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon.
- Submit to search engines.
- Set-up PPC/Google Adwords.
- Check formatting of site results in SERPs.
- Monitor and respond to feedback.
- Check analytics for problems, popular pages and adjust when necessary.
- Update content regularly.

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