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Web Developer Checklist
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#12You might want to link your href-s to new tab/window.
No. That's what the back button, middle-click, or (cmd/ctrl/whatever it's mapped as) + click are for.
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#13Custom 404 page under usability? hmm. I'm sure just about anyone who has used the web for any length of time has hit the standard apache "Not found" page hundreds of times now and pretty much knows what it means. Custom 404 pages of often quite confusing as they will try to be clever and redirect you to other content that may be interesting. Sometimes these aren't clear and give the impression that the link was not b…
"Custom 404 pages of often quite confusing as they will try to be clever and redirect you to other content that may be interesting."
I agree, however I also believe that is the intent of filing it under "usability". It isn't usability as you would commonly define it, a good UX, but rather keeping the UX of the site consistent across all states, even failure, and giving the user an entry point back in to the rest of the site. A default Apache 404 does not do this, it's just a flat white page, with your only option being to go back from whence you came. If that wasn't your site, then the perception is you've lost a potential visitor, and that potentially could've been avoided with a custom 404 page.
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#14No clean URLs?
How about setting up automated backups?
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#15Another nice list: http://www.boxuk.com/blog/the-ultimate-website-launch-checkl...
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#16Liked the favicon part, very often forgotten... Would be nice if this was open sourced so more items could have been added by the community (also framework specific checklists) but I like the concept One thing I would add which is driving me crazy on mobile / tablet sign up pages - make sure your email fields are annotated with type="email" Another common issue is with SSL mixed content waring, so I would also add -…
favicon is only forgotten by those that never check their logs.
(Which should be part of the checklist, check your friggin' logs instead of assuming you never miss anything.)
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#17Interestingly enough this website doesn't have:
1) Custom 404 page
2) robots.txt
3) PICS label
4) viewport meta-tag
5) Google Rich Snippets
6) Fails the recommended CSS validator
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#18I would add one: Make sure your log-in form is uncomplicated so that browsers can remember passwords correctly.
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#19I did something similar - a checklist for prelaunch which you might find some useful things to add to your list:
https://bitbucket.org/steerpike/checklist
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#20Great start. Wish it were set up to be collaborative so we could suggest some of the missing elements.
Should probably be a shared card on Trello.