Website Checklist
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Evaluate your commercial website and be successful.
For your website to be successful you must know who your intended website
audience is, what the goal of your web site is, and how the attainment of
that goal will be measured. Without this knowledge, it will be hard to achieve success.
- Planning
- know your audience
- site strategy
- scope the features
- maintenance plan
- Turn cost centers into revenue sources
- prototype structure
- conduct usability testing
- advertising on your site
- Adhere to Standards
- validate xhtml
- validate css
- WCAG and Sectin 508
- Speed
- access the site via simulated slow connection
- check image size specifications
- check sending of "last-modified" header
- check response to "if-modified-since" header
- check caching rules
- Accessibility
- test accessibility (Comply with WCAG levels 1, 2 and 3)
- test in text browser
- test varying window sizes
- test varying font sizes
- rating services
- test with different browsers
- test look of printed pages
- test that javascript off condition is handled
- test that plug-ins off condition is handled
- test that images off condition is handled
- test that cookies off condition is handled
- Other Checks
- check non-reliance on mailto
- check for orphaned pages
- check sensible page titles
- check for duplicate titles
- check for duplicate descriptions
- check for short descriptions
- check for broken links
- enable custom 404 page
- Spelling & Grammar
- minify js
- Security, Compliance & Monitoring
- audit for SQL injection
- audit for cross site scripting
- audit for public access to sensitive data
- audit for compliance with privacy laws
- enable custom 500 page
- enable error notification system
- Marketing
- Search Engine Optimization
- Use Sitemaps
- Coordinate with offline marketing
- Analysis & Feedback
An excellent colaborative checklist can be found here
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