So "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...
The second being 'cross your fingers'...?
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#32The spellcheck item didn't have a link. Any good spellchecker bots out there?
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#33It's sad how "Security" there's only one very generalizing item. "Implement best practices". Right.
Is the author just ignorant, or am I a fool thinking that if anything it should be "Security" which has the most elaborate items?
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#34Custom 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…
I prefer the 404 pages that something to the effect of "Sorry, that is broken" and then include the results of a site search of the keywords or friendly url that was provided.
It's less confusing and keeps people on site.
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#35It's sad how "Security" there's only one very generalizing item. "Implement best practices". Right. Is the author just ignorant, or am I a fool thinking that if anything it should be "Security" which has the most elaborate items?
Yes, having robots and favicon is nice, but there are few items on this list that can embarrass / kill a company like bad security.
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#36Nice work, I use this at the moment http://lite.launchlist.net/ as it has more checks and well a prettier interface.
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#37No clean URLs? How about setting up automated backups?
Clean URLs aren't really necessary and can be difficult with some frameworks.
Automated backups also aren't necessary for all sites, particularly if the entire site is in a source repository somewhere and doesn't have users.
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#39I see that Jakob Nielsen's venerable "Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design" checklist
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-mistakes-web-design/
just got new styling the other day, as I work on updating my seventeen-year-old personal website.
There are still a LOT of websites that make several of those top ten mistakes. They are higher priority than many of the other issues mentioned on the checklist kindly submitted here. As other comments here have pointed out, it's desirable in a checklist to establish priorities.
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#40You 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.
I prefer links away from 'apps' like this site to open in a new window or tab. I'd like the app to preserve its state, not replace itself.