Template:Testchecklist

Template:Testchecklist (talk, backlinks, edit)

Pre-Launch

Content and Style

• Typography and layout
  • Check for incorrect punctuation marks, particularly apostrophes, quotation marks and hyphens/dashes
  • Check headings for where you could potentially use ligatures
  • Check for widow/orphan terms in important paragraphs
• Spelling and grammar
• Consistency
  • Capitalisation (especially of main headings)
  • Tense/Style of writing
  • Recurring/common phrases (e.g. ‘More about X’ links)
  • Variations in words (e.g. Websites vs Web Sites, or UK vs US spelling)
  • Treatment of bulleted lists (e.g. periods or commas at end of each item)
• Check for hard-coded links to staging domain (i.e. ensure all links will change to ‘live’ URL/domain when site is launched)
• 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)

Standards and Validation

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• Accessibility
• HTML validation -> http://validator.w3.org/
• JavaScript validation
• CSS validation -> http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Search Engine Visibility, SEO and Metrics

• Page Titles are important; ensure they make sense and have relevant keywords in them.
• Create metadata descriptions for important pages.
• Check for canonical domain issues (e.g. variations in links to http://site.com http://www.site.com http://www.site.com/index.html should be reduced to a single consistent style)
• Ensure content is marked-up semantically/correctly (HTML-tags, etc.)
• Check for target keyword usage in general content
• Check format (user/search engine friendliness) of URLs
• Set up Analytics, FeedBurner, and any other packages for measuring ongoing succes
  -> http://www.google.com/analytics (use twovalue@gmail.com as username. See http://service.2value.nl for password)
• Create an XML Sitemap
  -> consider the Joomla! extension Xmap
• Configure Google Webmaster Console and Yahoo! Site Explorer
  -> http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools (use twovalue@gmail.com as username. See http://service.2value.nl for password)

Functional Testing

• Check all bespoke/complex functionality
• Check search functionality (including relevance of results)
• Check on common variations of browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome etc.), version (6, 7, 2.2, 3.1 etc.) and platform (Windows, OSX, Linux)
• Check on common variations of Screen Resolution
• Test all forms (e.g. contact us, blog comments), including anti-spam features, response emails/text, etc.
• Test without JavaScript, Flash, and other plug-ins
• Check all external links are valid -> lees meer

Security/Risk

• Configure backup schedule, and test recovery from backup.
• Protect any sensitive pages (e.g. administration area)
• Use robots.txt where necessary
• Security/Penetration test
• Turn-off verbose error reporting
• Check disk space/capacity
• Set-up email/SMS monitoring/alerts (e.g. for errors, server warnings); consider internal and external monitoring services

Performance

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• Load test
• Check image optimisation
  -> All Smush.it
• Check and implement caching where necessary
  -> NoNumber Cache Cleaner
• Check total page size/download time
  -> Firefox plugin Yslow
• Minify/compress static (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) files
  -> use compress plugins
• Optimise your CSS: use short image paths; make full-use ‘cascading’ nature of CSS, etc.
  -> use compress plugins
• Check correct database indexing
• Check configuration at every level (Web server, Database, any other software e.g. Content Management System)
• Configure server-based logging/measurement tools (e.g. database/web server logging)

• Lees meer hierover in de SlideShare presentatie van Hans Kuijpers over Site Performance Optimization

Finishing Touches

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• Create custom 404/error pages
  -> consider the Joomla! extension Dynamic404
• Create a favicon

Joomla! specific

• Remove testcontent from configuration.php

Post-Launch

Marketing

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• Social Marketing: Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon, etc.
• Submit to search engines
• Set-up PPC/Google Adwords where necessary
• Check formatting of site results in SERPs

Ongoing

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• Monitor and respond to feedback (direct feedback, on Social Media sites, check for chatter through Google, etc.)
• Check analytics for problems, popular pages etc. and adjust as necessary
• Update content

For an updated list check -> http://www.boxuk.com/blog/the-ultimate-website-launch-checklist

Een template maken die een parameter mee krijgt? level=basic -> retourneert bulletpoints die dit level in de standaard cheklist behelzen, level=medium -> extra set bullets per onderdeel, etc