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, [...]
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, coding, or even asking the question, so what does this site do?
If you follow these checklists you will find that many problems are caught and solved before a single user uses the site, which has considerable benefits as we all know. Some of these checklists, are quite specific, so you find you do not need them, or may need only them. The decision of which ones to use and which ones not to use, is yours.
1. Client-Focused Checklists and Questionnaires
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.
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
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
The Beginner’s Checklist For Small Business SEO
The Beginner’s Checklist for Learning SEO
The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet.
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
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.
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great list, thx.
Excellent information - thank you. I will definitely recommend your site to my clients. Most people don’t know how important the things that you highlighted are.
Thanks for helping spread the good word!