Website Maintenance

The website was planned, designed, constructed, and is being promoted. Are we done? Now is the process of doing the periodic maintenance, monitoring, and measuring of the website.

Website Maintenance steps:

Website Maintenance - Maintain
Website Maintenance - Monitor
Website Maintenance - Measure
Website Maintenance - Reference

Website Promotion - Maintenance

Periodic Maintenance is the review of the website and the correcting of anything that has surfaced as a problem or issue. This checks and reviews should be run regularly against the website. Run them monthly for a website that is changed regularly. Run the checks and validations and fix any discrepancies.

This activities verify the website itself.

Validate the HTML

W3C HTML Validation Service - The W3C Markup Validation Service is a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
Web Design Group HTML Validator - Validate the entire site at once.

Validate the CSS

W3C CSS Validation Service - a free service that checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for conformance to W3C recommendations.

Check the Hyperlinks

W3C Link Checker - Check all the hyperlinks

Run Spell Check

Most HTML and Web page editors come with spell checkers.

Validate against accessibility standards

Cynthia Says™ Portal - is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 Standards and the W3C WCAG 1.0 Guidelines. The main purpose of this portal is to educate web site developers in the development Web Based content that is accessible to all. This online test only validates one page at a time.

Make sure there is a valid backup

Run Domain Name information validation

Better Whois.com - In this changing system of increased competition and new registrars, the only way to get an absolutely accurate domain report is to:
- lookup the domain in the shared domain registry
- locate which registrar has reserved the name
- visit and query that registrar's database for the correct information
BetterWhois.com does this for you instantly.

Check Search Engine Spiders

Engine Viewer is built off of the core of a search engine harvester (spider). What this means is you can view your webpage in the same way a search engine does, from how it breaks down the HTML, to which links it extracts, how it interprets your robot exclusion rules and more! Since a large percentage of most websites traffic comes from search engine results, it's now more important than ever to understand better how webpages are dissected and indexed.

Check against other browsers

Lynx Viewer - This service allows web authors to see what their pages will look like (sort of) when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser.

Check Web Page Speed

Web Page Analyzer - Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis

Validate privacy statements

EzinePrivacy.org - Defending the privacy of ezine subscribers: "The Ezine Privacy Button is Your Guarantee

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