Tips to test prior to website inauguration PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 27 August 2009
By Maria Johnsen

 Before you broadcast your website to world its worthwhile to maintain a checklist of certain facts. Here we are going to discuss some of the points which are often forgotten in hurry and excitement.

Favicon:
A Favicon brands the window or tab where your website opens in the user browser. Generally it is also saved with bookmark which help user to spot pages from the website.
Titles and Meta Data:
For Web design SEO title of the page is very notable. Employ any trained and knowledgeable person in SEO web design to relate description on each page to pages content as usually Google necessitate it for search engine result description. For SEO webdesign keyword tags and Meta description are not so much significant but still its a wise decision to include them.
Check in all Browsers:
When you are certain that design of the website is OK then you should check website with internet browsers. Most general browsers are Internet explorer (IE) 6, 7 and 8, Safari 3, opera, Firefox 3 and Google Chrome.
Proofreading:
Its always prudent to get someone who can read your content correctly, even if you have checked it 3- 4 times. Try to reduce discarded and unrelated text from the text. Apply general writing rule like breaking the large paragraph block into smaller one and adding heading to all major paragraphs. This will facilitate you to scan fast. Dynamic boxes such as alert boxes should also be checked.
Web Writing:
Dont ever think that links provided by you will work. It is better to click on them and see whether they are working or not. The common mistake done by the designer is to forget typing "http" to links to external websites.
Functionality check:
Before launching web site its desirable to check everything. All contact forms should be checked properly by you. Ask your friend or family member to use the website and see where they are finding difficulty and correct that accordingly.
Degradation with Grace:
Every now and then, users switch off their java script because of security reasons and in that condition your website should even work with Java script turned off.
Validation:
There are many reasons if your website does not come under the valid category. Your aim should be to valid date website 100 percent. Common mistakes include no closing tags, no alt tags and using of & in place of &amp for ampersands.
Sitemap:
If you tote up file sitemap.xml to the root directory then it would help search engine to index your website. This file assist search engine to crawl on your web pages and tell engines that you have some relevant content that can be displayed.
Optimize:
If you want to load your pages more quickly and easily and yearn for to use less server space then reduce the HTTP request, use CSS sprites, optimize images for the web and compress CSS files and JavaScript. Using some useful catching technique can also help you to speed up the performance.
Print Style:
At times user desires to get a print out from your website. In such cases it would be a good idea to have print specific style sheet integrated on you website to assist the user.

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