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Re: Web Developer Checklist

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Post by jstanley » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 3:46 PM UTC

karolisd wrote: post #44

What would be the best approach to automate this so I could put in a URL and it detects as much as it can about the website?

I was thinking about this a couple of days ago. The way I would do it is to submit it individually to each of the checks (e.g. W3C validator) and scrape the results. There may be APIs available for some, I've not looked into that.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

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Post by zupa-hu » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

WoW I am building an automated tool right now for exactly that. It is in private beta. Anyone interested in test riding it drop me a line!

http://site-analytics.org/ The intro is already outdated, I'll make a new one very soon.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

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Post by caseysoftware » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 6:27 PM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #70

caseysoftware wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you do this (which you should in my opinion), please return the 404 code. For example Facebook used to return 200 on error. Very confusing.

Absolutely, I assumed that was a given.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

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Post by skakri » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 11:11 PM UTC

malachismith wrote: post #4

Great start. Wish it were set up to be collaborative so we could suggest some of the missing elements.

Perhaps you could fork it (https://github.com/ligershark/webdevchecklist.com) and send a pull request.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

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Post by jacalata » Wed, Jan 09, 2013, 3:52 AM UTC

I built a public trello board from this list: not quite sure if that's the best presentation (should it be one card for each heading?), but ideally people would clone it to work on their own sites, and make contributions of new cards/info for existing cards on the main board. https://trello.com/b/hkC4B6HA

Re: Web Developer Checklist

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Post by onlyup » Wed, Jan 09, 2013, 6:10 PM UTC

halfninety wrote: post #53

tokenadult wrote: post #39

I 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.…

Nice list, but I think it can be condensed into one: Use your own site and make sure you don't hate it yourself.

Simple but effective advice.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

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Post by mskierkowski » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:03 AM UTC

Is it time for feature requests? It'd be great to get integration with common management tools (e.g. Github Issues, Trello), so that the list can automatically be imported for a given milestone.