Web Developer Checklist

#1

Post by grantpalin » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

Web Developer Checklist
webdevchecklist.com

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#2

Post by codegeek » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 7:16 PM UTC

Thx for sharing. For a newbie in web dev (like me), it is a great resource. Bookmarked.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#3

Post by drinchev » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:03 PM UTC

You might want to link your href-s to new tab/window.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#4

Post by malachismith » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

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

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#5

Post by mikle » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:13 PM UTC

I have a sublist of that, that I built over the last ~year of hacking on web projects. One of my biggest to dos in each project is automate stuff like validating. I still haven't really found a good way so I either go to w3c and check everything once in a while or I just don't. Usually I just don't.

This to me is like a checklist of things to automate. Is there any "build" system for the web?

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#6

Post by jiggy2011 » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:33 PM UTC

Custom 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 broken and that this is where the site designer intended you to go which leaves you looking around the page for the content you thought you were going to get.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#7

Post by kylelibra » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

Good stuff, I'll probably use this for clients who say, "What have you been doing? It looks done to me!"

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#8

Post by pdog » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

Would be nice to have this automatically generated for a given URL.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#9

Post by javajosh » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:48 PM UTC

Solid functionality that I'll personally use. Good work.

Re: Web Developer Checklist

#10

Post by eranation » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

Liked 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

  - make sure to use protocol relative / https only URLs

(with a reminder to NOT use protocol relative URLs in email templates, your outlook users will appreciate it)