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Website Checklist

Mar 15th, 2009 Web Development 1 Comment

This is something I wrote back in 2004 when I was working as a Freelance Web Designer and needed a standard website checklist I could show to clients, hope this is useful and is recommended to follow before a site launch.

Checklist Setup

• What is the goal of the website project and who is the target audience?
• What kind of image (branding) do you wish to convey?
• Will it be a bilingual website?
• Do you have a domain name and require hosting?
• Any database functionality required?
• Who are your competitors and which sites you admire?
• How many web pages to be created approximately?
• What is the approximate financial budget and the ideal completion date?

Working with Clients

• Preliminary website page flowchart is given.
• Approximate financial budget is re-confirmed, waiting for acceptance. Site is developed in secure environment.
• Client gives feedback, afterwards launch live and invoice final payment.

Content

• Check spelling and grammar.
• Look at the style of writing.
• Implement recurring common phrases (keywords).

Website Standards

• Accessibility.
• HTML, JavaScript and CSS validation.
• Create custom 404/error pages.

SEO and Metrics

• Ensure content is marked-up semantically/correctly.
• Define Meta Data.
• Check format (user/search engine friendliness) of URLs.
• Set up Analytics, FeedBurner, and any other packages for measuring ongoing metrics.
• Create an XML Sitemap and submit to Google Webmaster/Yahoo Site Explorer.
• Create Favicon.

Functional Testing

• Check on common variations of browser and variations of Screen Resolution.
• Test all forms and Test without JavaScript, Flash, and other plugins.
• Make sure all external links are valid.

Performance

• Configure backup schedule and check disk space/server capacity.
• Check image optimisation, page loading times, css optimisation and correct DB indexing.

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