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Your website is designed and it
is time to take the website live. Or is it? When
launching a website, you can often forget or overlook
a number of details in your eagerness to get it
live. It is useful to have a checklist to review
as you make your final touches and before you
officially release your website - to avoid unnecessary
costs and provide the best user experience possible.
Favicon
A favicon brands the tab or window in which your
website is open in the user's browser. It is also
saved with the bookmark so that users can easily
identify pages from your website. Some browsers
pick up the favicon if you save it in your root
directory as favicon.ico, but to be sure it is
picked up all the time, include the following
in your head.
Titles And Meta Data
Your page title is the most important element
for SEO and is also important so that users know
what is on the page. Make sure it changes on every
page and relates to that page's content.
Meta description and keyword tags are not as
important for SEO (at least for the major search
engines anyway), but it is still a good idea to
include them. Change the description on each page
to make it relate to that page's content, because
this is often what Google displays in its search
result description.
Cross-Browser Checks
Just when you think your design looks great,
pixel perfect, you check it in IE and see that
everything is broken. It is important that your
website works across browsers. It does not have
to be pixel perfect, but everything should work,
and the user should not see any problems. The
most popular browsers to check are Internet Explorer
6, 7 and 8, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Chrome, Opera
and the iPhone.
Part
II: Essential Checks Before Launching a Website
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