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Final website check before publication

A final website check before publication is a wise move. Start by uploading the latest version of each page and file to your host. For help with uploading, see our Website Test tutorial (in Build Site section). You may want to repeat the website checks suggested there, including

website navigation checks
browser compatibility checks.

These further website checks may be performed:

content review
accessibility checks
HTML code check.

Website Check - Content Review

Ask a friend or family member to review your content. It's easier if they read a page or two at a time, not all at once. Don't look for praise for your work, but ask them to tell you honestly

where they found the writing difficult to follow;
if they found any of the web pages too long (or boring!)
if they found grammatical or spelling errors, problems with your writing style, or words they didn't understand
if they can suggest any other improvements.

You can review your writing yourself (and you should) but it's even more valuable when someone unfamiliar with the writing reviews it.

If you have access to anyone with professional or near-professional editorial skills, you can ask them to help with the review. Or you can pay for professional review services.

Finally, after you have made any last minute corrections, run your pages through your spell checker to look for spelling mistakes that might have been missed (or added during the corrections.)

Website Check - Accessibility

A website check for accessibility can include all of the following:

Website Load Time - This affects everyone's ability to access your site. Since you have been taking care with this aspect througout your web page design process, you shouldn't have a problem with loading time at this stage.

But there's nothing like making sure! You can check the load time yourself using a watch or clock with a second hand. Check it at quiet and busy times, there could be a significant difference, depending on how busy your various service providers are at these times.

There are several free online services to check your download time. Some of them will also show you where the time was spent, so if your load time is on the high side you can find out why.

Of course, your own internet connection speed is a factor in how fast your website downloads to your PC. You can check that online too.

Sight-Impaired and Hearing-Impaired Users - You might be amazed to realize how many people there are using magnifying glasses to try to decipher web pages. Let's all try to make it a little easier for these folk.

Some of these people are not power PC users either. For example, they may not know that the content in their browser windows can be size-adjusted.

There are also hearing-impaired users who can be disadvantaged on certain websites too.

Some online sites give good guidance about how to make websites easier for these handicapped visitors.

Color-Blind Users - One in every 8 men and one in 200 women are have some degree of color-blindness. There are free online services to help you determine if your web site is a challenge for these people.

Website Check - HTML Code

Over the years, several steps have been taken towards standardizing HTML. Browsers today still support many of the older HTML conventions which are not part of the current HTML standard. This support is not uniform. What works in one browser may not in another.

Eventually, everyone will have to come into line, and that may be painful for those of us who are most out of line. So try to stick to the latest HTML standards.

If you are using a WYSIWYG web editor you may find that the HTML code it generates does not always comply with current standards, even though it may work well enough for now, in most browsers.

There are several online website checking services. They show you where your HTML code is out of line with standard HTML (or just plain incorrect)
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The official body which coordinates HTML standards is the World Wide Web Consortium (or W3C). See their site for further information.

We are now ready to move on to Publishing our Web Site...

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Links / Resources

EWP Tutorial: Website Test

EWP Tutorial: Website writing

Professional Web Page Review Services:

Editing and Writing Services

Insight Resources

The Proofreaders

Free online services to check website load time:

Gomez Instant Test

Website Pulse

Test your own internet connection speed:

Speed Test

Online Accessibility Website Test:

Section 508 Test

Accessibility aricles:

Webcredible: Ten Quick Tests

Online colour-blind-simulation website checks:

Colorfilter: Web Page Filter

More articles about HTML standards:

December.com: HTML Standards

Wikipedia: HTML

wdvl: HTML Checkers

HTML code checkers:

OnlineWebCheck

W3C Markup Validation Service

The Dumb Terminal

HTML Help

Official HTML body:

World Wide Web Consortium

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