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Don't forget in your web site…

Just a list of things that you can’t forget in your web site:

Legal stuff (for Spain):

Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

  • Title, description and keywords dynamically generated depending on the content.
  • Friendly URLS (human readable URI)
  • Title and alternative text for all the images!
  • Robots.txt: say to the bots what they can/can’t see or how often they can do it.
  • Sitemap.xml: Say to the bots what’s updated and when

User/Browser:

  • About: I think it is important to know a bit more about the site or what they are reading…
  • FAQ: I’m sure there’s always questions and you have the right answers, important to keep it updated
  • Cookies: Check if the browser of the user able you to read them…
  • JavaScript: Check that JavaScript is enabled or they could not enjoy your beautiful ajax…
  • Screen resolution: Don’t do a site with fixed width of 1600px…almost no one have that, my preference is a variable width.
  • Sitemap: Make easier to the users to browse your site with a proper sitemap
  • Contact: Just a contact form, makes you more reliable in front of the user and really useful. really important.
  • Search: Is always welcome an small form to make a search
  • Favicon: Something really simple to do but would make lot easier to see your site in a tabbed browsing
  • NO pop ups: That’s terrible! please no Java Script pop up! at least use some modal box or something more friendly…
  • RSS: This is mandatory…make to your regular readers live easier!

Make money  / ask for money:

  • Paypal: I think nowadays is the best way to receive donations or to pay for something.
  • Adsense: Use some adsense just if it’s not a professional site of course…you don’t want the people to leave your site without buying!

Statistics:

  • Google analitycs: Really important to analyze your traffic!
  • Site Up Time: also important to know if your site is down or not!

Finally:

  • If our site it’s about downloads or videos, use external services such as megaupload daylimotion imageshack….
  • It’s your site fast enough? is compatible with other browsers? many small details that are important

As you can see I don’t say anything about flash web sites, since you can do nothing of this almost xD

I’ve forgot something? Any ideas?