{"id":234,"date":"2009-04-19T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-04-19T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T18:17:00","slug":"15-essential-checks-before-launching-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/04\/15-essential-checks-before-launching-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Your website<\/span> is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It\u2019s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it\u2019s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website<\/span> to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch<\/strong> \u2014 little details are often forgotten or ignored, but \u2013 if done in time \u2013 may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release.<\/p>\n

Favicon<\/h4>\n

A favicon brands the tab or window in which your website<\/span> is open in the user\u2019s browser. It is also saved with the bookmark so that users can easily identify pages from your website<\/span>. Some browsers pick up the favicon if you save it in your root directory as favicon.ico, but to be sure it\u2019s picked up all the time, include the following in your head.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. <<\/span>link<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/span>rel<\/span><\/span>=<\/span>“icon”<\/span><\/span> <\/span>type<\/span><\/span>=<\/span>“image\/x-icon”<\/span><\/span> <\/span>href<\/span><\/span>=<\/span>“\/favicon.ico”<\/span><\/span> <\/span>\/><\/span><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n
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    And if you have an iPhone favicon:<\/p>\n
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    view plain<\/a>copy to clipboard<\/a>print<\/a>?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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    1. <<\/span>link<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/span>rel<\/span><\/span>=<\/span>“apple-touch-icon”<\/span><\/span> <\/span>href<\/span><\/span>=<\/span>“\/favicon.png”<\/span><\/span> <\/span>\/><\/span><\/strong><\/span>  <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      more @ http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/04\/07\/15-essential-checks-before-launching-your-website\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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      Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It\u2019s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it\u2019s useful to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}