Deliver first class web sites 101 essential checklists free download

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More filters. Sort order. Jul 17, Tessa rated it really liked it Recommends it for: web developers and designers, people who need to work with web developers and designers.

Shelves: design , xhtml-css. If you're new to web dev, i can see this would be a 5 star book, though if you are new, after reading this book and its tedious "work-flow" and large checklists, you may not want to be a web developer anymore!

Make all the goals, audience, architecture and core content stuff part of your requirements as a web developer, for If you're new to web dev, i can see this would be a 5 star book, though if you are new, after reading this book and its tedious "work-flow" and large checklists, you may not want to be a web developer anymore!

Make all the goals, audience, architecture and core content stuff part of your requirements as a web developer, for getting started project. If they don't deliver exactly what you need, warn them they're not following your requirements and additional fees and billable hours may come into play if this causes the project to "creep out of scope" and you're covered. As a creative and generally "scattered" person, I depend on the "how-to" and development checklists I've been painstakingly putting together over the years, so this was a nice reference to go through and make sure my checklists were up to snuff.

I was able to add a few things I hadn't yet though of aka: been bitten in the butt with yet. Apr 15, Tami rated it it was amazing. Deliver First Class Websites is one of hundreds of books on website design. Like the majority of these books the good ones anyway , Deliver First Class Websites takes the reader step by step through web design from planning and preparing content through design and creating clean code to testing and launching the website.

In each section, the author even includes handy checklists so that the web designer can assure that he or she has completed each step in the process.

Although I have read and r Deliver First Class Websites is one of hundreds of books on website design. Although I have read and reviewed countless books on web design, Deliver First Class Websites stood out. Most books of this type approach web design from a purely technological point of view and focus mainly on the code needed to create a good website. I found that this book took a slightly different approach. The goal of a good website as defined by this author was one with good accessibility and flow.

Often website designers, and writers of website design books, completely forget that websites are made for people. If these people get frustrated when they can't access information, they will simply leave your site.

Details With this book, you can be confident that you've covered all the bases on each of your projects. And a whole lot more! We've built this to be the only reference you'll need on best practices in web design.

You'll find checklists covering everything from planning, designing, developing, and testing, to launching a web site and maintaining it for the long haul. Using a checklists approach turns this vast amount of information into convenient, quick, easy-to-scan checklists organized by topic.

No detailed technical knowledge is assumed or required to use the checklists contained in the book. Shirley Kaiser Shirley Kaiser owns SKDesigns, a company focused on creating visually appealing web sites that are based on web standards and universal accessibility, and are optimized for speed and search engines.

Minor tweaking can resolve many cross-browser, cross-platform functionality issues. Ensure that all links work properly, and point to the correct location. Link checking software can check for valid, broken, and redirected links. See WebsiteTips. Make sure that the error pages include helpful information and links that help users find what they seek. Keep in mind that, sometimes, visitors will incorrectly guess a domain name or slightly misspell a URL.

Help those visitors by accepting common misspellings, typos, incorrect case sensitivity, different terminology for the same items, and predictable domain name errors: provide suggestions to redirect users to the proper page. Check to ensure that all your download links point to the correct files, and that the download files exist. Ensure that the search feature functions correctly, and that search results are accurate and helpful. Clear your Cache!

Be sure to clear the browser cache, including cookies, before each test. Figure SSL is commonly used to encrypt online transactions and other sensitive data, as well as intranets and extranets. Verisign and Thawte are two popular companies that issue SSL certificates. Users might share or try to guess the URLs of content and downloads in protected areas of your site.

Restricted content URLs might appear within publicly available referrer logs. People might even share usernames and passwords without authorization or permission. Hack your Site: the Ultimate Security Test Download popular hacking tools to use in testing, to see if your protected areas can easily be comprised.

Those managing larger-scale web sites might even consider outsourcing or hiring a hacking expert for testing purposes. Test regularly to make sure it remains secure.

Review form error messages to ensure that they are helpful and informative within the context of the form itself. If your web site includes a shopping cart or similar functionality, thoroughly test back-end operations to ensure that all transactions are secure, and everything runs smoothly. Then, they should undertake a thorough, comprehensive review that includes an evaluation of every web page or representative pages on larger web sites with a variety of tools and users who have disabilities.

The checklist below is a guide for conducting a preliminary accessibility review. You should test every page of a small web site. For larger web sites, select a random sampling of pages that includes your homepage, at least one or two pages from each section, and especially important or popular pages, such as the contact page and the sitemap.

Manually examine representative pages using the checkpoints from WCAG 1. If your results summary indicates a number of accessibility issues, you might wish to make site-wide changes before you conduct a comprehensive review. Conduct another preliminary test after you implement these changes. A comprehensive review is much more thorough and detailed than a preliminary review. Identify, determine, and document site-wide conformance requirements and levels.

You may include WCAG 1. Test every single page of smaller web sites. For larger web sites, test a representative sample that includes the homepage and all especially important or popular pages, pages from each section, pages for each different layout, and pages generated from databases.

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