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Content
- Immediately obvious from homepage what your business is about
- Company logo & name prominently placed
- Headings are clear and descriptive
- Company contact details
- Copyright notice
- Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, FAQ
- Endorsements for your products / services
- Proof read for spelling mistakes, grammatical errors etc.
Accessibility
- Website pages validate
(The W3C website has HTML & CSS Validation tools) - Loads quickly
(People are unlikely to wait over 15 seconds for a page to load) - Website displays correctly in various browsers
(Safari, Opera, IE, Firefox etc.) - Easy method of navigation
(Consistent throughout the website) - Content easily readable
(Font size and colour contrast from background) - Turn off Javascript & Flash and test again
Search Engine Visibility
- Unique meta descriptions for important pages
- General content uses keywords / phrases
- Content correctly formatted using heading tags
(Using keywords in headings) - Link between content pages within page content
- Unique titles for each page
- Format of URLs is search engine (& user) friendly
- Images have alt tags (also important for accessibility)
- Website usable in a text-only browser
(this is how a search engine sees your site)
Once you are ready to launch
- Submit your website to directories such as DMOZ
- Write & submit articles relevant to your website
(include your website details and brief bio) - Promote using social marketing, Facebook, Twitter etc
- Start offline marketing (where appropriate)
- Track your website using Google Analytics or similar
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About the Author
This article is part of a series written by Sadie Knight of Glassraven web design, Coventry. The full series of articles is available on the Glassraven website.
Glassraven, established in February 2002, are specialists in web design, ecommerce web design and bespoke web development.
