Essential Checklist’s For Successful Website Launches

posted by John Owen on July 17th, 2009, in Web Design | 1 Comment

The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist

This list provides a quick sheet to check everything about your website from capitalisation to correct database indexing. This doesn’t go as indepth as the other’s but it sure has got a lot of options to check. There is also a translation into French and a PDF avaliable for download.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Smashing Magazine goes more indepth with the checklist, it describes why each check is needed and what you can do about it. Below is a quote from the site.

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world.

Things to Do Before You Launch Your Website

This checklist is essentially a SEO checklist for your website launch. If you’re planning on getting organic traffic this is a must read. Here is a description from the site:

Buying a website for personal or business use. Then this article is for you. I have collated a check list that will hopefully keep you on the straight and narrow, throughout your site construction phase, prior to launching your website to major search engines for indexing.

What To Check Before You Launch A Website #1: Static Sites

This checklist is mainly based on visitors and how you can improve their experiance on your website. A snippet from the website:

For most of you designing great websites, diving deep into creative ideas is what web design is all about. Sure you may want your sites to be popular, maybe mentioned on established online galleries but it’s the creative process that I guess you would be most interested in.

13 Steps to a Successful Website Launch

This checklist gives some good information on the launching date, handeling the client’s demands & informing your team of the launch.

We all have been there, the client pushes for a launch date that is about 3 days before everyone had planned on. It is now Friday at 3:00pm and you are being pulled in all directions trying to get everything ready for the big launch. You keep asking yourself, “Did I forget anything?” “What else do I need to do?” Hopefully you pulled through and made the launch a successful one without anyone knowing otherwise, but for those who were not as lucky I hope this list can save you some headaches on your next big launch.

10 Steps To Ensure A Successful Website Launch

This PDF guide isn’t neccasaily a checklist but it does give some good information for websites.

Five Critical Steps for a Successful Web Site Launch

These steps go through what you should do with your design team to create a successfull website, not the website itself. Great for a web design company.

These five steps will help your web site launch go as smoothly as possible from a technical standpoint. Success in this case is defined as the site operating without errors, crashes or other anomalies related to the process of bringing it online in a production environment. I’ll assume that you have thoroughly tested the new site while it was in development.

What Makes For A Successful Website?

This is a checklist either but a list of what to do before you even design your website, this should help and guide you to creating a successful website.

Wouldn’t you like to know the main ingredients for creating a successful website? What are the basics that make a website successful? A website that will stand out and be noticed by your visitors. One that will keep those visitors returning to your site, again and again. A successful website that generates high levels of sales and enquiries?

Conclusion

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