Interestingly 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
I agree with you on all but 6...not really helpful in the days of CSS3
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#22I'd add: check your SSL certificate installation using a tool like this: http://certlogik.com/ssl-checker/
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#23Interestingly 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
It has the top items now..
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#24Liked 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 -…
> 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
Just to share, since you mention framework specific, a similar concept exists since a while ago for the PHP symfony (version 1) framework (not official, but I quite liked it back then)
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#25Interestingly 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
It has the top items now..
Does it? I typed in http://webdevchecklist.com/robots.txt and it gave me a bog-standard IIS 404 page, not a custom one.
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#26This is cool, I expect a lot of people could get use out of this. The security section is kind of amusing, though.
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#27A document that bills itself as "The ultimate checklist for all serious web developers" should not hide most of its content (via CSS) and require trusting some unknown author's javascript to display it.
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#28Good stuff, I'll probably use this for clients who say, "What have you been doing? It looks done to me!"
This drives me nuts. On the surface there is very little difference between `just functional' and `production ready'. And it's a hard sell if the client is not aware of the benefits.
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#29So "SEO" has four different checkboxes but "Security" has just one: "Implement best practices"
Uh...I think that can be broken down to at least two different things...