====== Web-site launch checklist ======

===== Site engine =====
  * Check there are no hard-coded links to development domain 	 
  * Ensure no test content on site
  * Proper alt tags for all images
  * Labels for all form elements
  * Have you properly configured tabindex attributes?
  * Check HTML Standards compliance
  * Check CSS Standards compliance
  * JavaScript validation
  * Visual consistence of all pages
     * IE6
     * IE7
     * IE8
     * Firefox
     * Chrome
     * Opera
  * Check on common variations of Screen Resolution - 800x600, 1024x768, 1920x1080
  * Check print.css and printed pages
  * Check favicon.ico
  * RSS feed for news
  * XML Sitemap
  * Correct 404 page
    * Add script from Google Webmaster tools
  * Correct 403 page
  * Correct 500 page
  * Check all links (with automated tool)
  * Check site works with disabled JavaScript
  * Check site works with disabled Cookies
  * Test all forms (e.g. contact us, blog comments), including anti-spam features, response emails/text, etc.
  * Check "Contact us" form correct message destination
  * Check search functionality (including relevance of results)
  * Turn-off verbose error reporting 

===== Backend =====
  * Create Admin user
  * Check login form
  * Check for access restriction
  * Check default management workflow
  * Security/Penetration test
  * Check correct database indexing

===== Content & Style =====
  * Typography and layout 	 
    * Check for incorrect punctuation marks, particularly apostrophes, quotation marks and hyphens/dashes 	 
    * Check headings for where you could potentially use ligatures 	 
    * Check for widow/orphan terms in important paragraphs 	 
  * Spelling and grammar 	 
    * Consistency 	 
    * Capitalisation (especially of main headings) 	 
    * Tense/Style of writing 	 
  * Recurring/common phrases (e.g. ‘More about X’ links) 	 
  * Variations in words (e.g. Websites vs Web Sites, or UK vs US spelling) 	 
  * Treatment of bulleted lists (e.g. periods or commas at end of each item) 	 
  * Title and metadata for all pages

===== Marketing & Statistics =====
  * Activate Google Analytics
  * Google Webmaster Tools
    * Verify site
    * Submit sitemap
    * Check robots.txt
  * Submit to search engines
  * Correct 301 redirects on old site, if need

===== Web-server setup =====
  * Setup file & database backups
  * Performance tests
  * Load test
  * Check and implement caching where necessary
  * Check total page size/download time
  * Minify/compress static (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) files