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How to Extract the Facts with a Web Design Client Questionnaire
Design checklist: What clients should provide their designer
Comprehensive Web Design Checklist
How I Approach Logo Design – A Checklist
4 Critical Logo Design Details You May Be Forgetting About.Client Questionnaire for Web Developers
Step-By-Step Website Development – Check List
Project Planning Website Checklist

2. Pre-Launch Checklists

The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist

Blogger’s Checklist Before Hitting The Publish Button

3. General Web Design Checklists

Web Standards ChecklistTypographic Rules Checklist (PDF)
Typography Checklist (PDF)
Essential Navigation Checklist for Web Design

Checklist for usable forms
Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist.

GUI Screen Design Checklist
GUI Testing Checklist.

Web Accessibility Checklist.

Another accessibility checklist.

Checklist To Improve Your Site’s Speed and Performance
The Ultimate Testing Checklist
101 Essential Checklists

50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your Website

Content Quality Checklist
CSS Crib Sheet

Beginner’s Checklist Before Debugging CSS
Ruby On Rails Code Quality Checklist
Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist.

Checklist for Securing PHP Configuration

4. Usability Checklists

Web Design Best Practices Checklist

The Ultimate Webdesign Usability Checklist

Quick Usability Checklist

The Blog Usability Checklist
25-Point Website Usability Checklist

Everyday Usability—14-Point Checklist for Success
Usability.Edu: 25 Incredibly Useful Usability Cheat Sheets & Checklists
The Usability Toolkit
Key questions to ask your usability testing supplier (PDF)
Dr. Web: The Ultimate Usability Checklist (in German)

5. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Checklists

Common Sense SEO Checklist

The Ultimate SEO Checklist

The Beginner’s Checklist For Small Business SEO
The Beginner’s Checklist for Learning SEO

The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet.

SEO Checklist

6. Marketing Checklists

Viral Marketing Campaign Checklist

The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period!

Improving Conversion Rates Checklist

Landing Page Checklist
Checklists for starting your first business

7. WordPress Checklists

WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist
More checkpoints.

WordPress: Blog Maintenance Checklist

WordPress: Theme Development Checklist
Another checklist

yet another one

Moving and Upgrading Your WordPress Weblog: A 20-Point Checklist
WordPress Upgrade Preparation Checklist.

8. Ultimate Web Design Checklists

149 Mortal Sins That Will Send Your Site to Web Design Hell

The Official ‘Successful Website Checklist Challenge’

PC Limited’s Web Design Check List
A Solid Web Design Checklist
A Website Design & Development Project Checklist

Test Your Website: A 57-Point Checklist for Maximum Usability

These checklists will be espeically useful to you if you are a freelance web designer. It can be scary going it alone and only by using checklists can you be sure you have everything in place, especially if this is your first project.

We hope these checklists help you in creating better, error free web designs, and we hope that you will make good use of them. They are a very good resource for your designs and they may well be the key to making a good website.

Have fun.

Designing and building a website is a complex task, and there are many margins for error. The idea behind having a checklist, is to try and find out where any errors are, and fix them before any website goes live. These check lists range from the start of a web design well before any sketching, [...]

As we saw in our previous article, the logo is the representation of a company or organisation summed up in one design.  The two are going to be synonymous with one another, so it is vitally important that the logo is nothing short of perfect.
Sounds like a really tough task to get right?  It is, [...]

The logo is the image people remember.  Whether they have seen it on a product, billboard, or website, the colors and graphics that go into the logo are what sticks in their mind.  Is it the idea behind branding after all.
As a web designer, it is your responsibility to ensure that the logo is appropriate [...]

Websites are like machines in the sense they are constantly emerging, and designers are building more and more functions into them.  Arguably, machines such as stereos and applications such as Photoshop and MS Office,  have more and more features built into them with each new version.  Is this a true step forward, or do the [...]

It is everyone web designers dream to become a freelance web designer.  The prospect of starting your own business, working for you and not a company or shareholder, makes all the difference.  It has all the ingredients of something that will bring in success, which is what it is all about.
Clients, and how you handle [...]

CSS is an amazing web tool, but it can easily get messy or sloppy.  To get the best out of it, you must stay organised.  So no more sloppy code, or unrecorded hacks.  Your education in organising your CSS code is about to begin.
Keep organized.  Rather than dropping in classes and id’s at random, try [...]

Web design has crafted its own set of rules, many of which have been crafted for a reason. That reason being the users experience. There is however, some web designers that dare to be different and break the mould when the spirit of inspiration or design calls for it.

Do not have a horizontal bar. [...]

Assessing how usable your site is crucial to its success.  Is it easy to use? Does it have the right content? Are people hanging around or clicking away in their droves?  All these questions help you to gauge exactly how good your website is.
The concept of doing all this though is a daunting one, and [...]

Tips and tools to improve usability of your web design.
Usability testing can sound like a daunting concept especially if you are on a tight budget.  The idea of paying lots of people to try and find problems with your recently finished masterpiece is not that appealing.  Did you know that, according to many well placed [...]

We all know that search engine optimization is crucial for business and organizations to get their sites on the first page of Google. Search engine optimization is a vast concept and many tools and applications have been written to help designers, copywriters, and webmasters get their heads around SEO.
As there is no real key [...]