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Sign and date your page (see example below).
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Copyright your page (see example below).
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Add 'contact' and/or comment link.
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Add download recommendations for browsers, acrobat
reader, ghostview, etc. Anything a 'customer' might not have but
would need to view your site.
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Spell check
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Proofread
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Add ALT's to all images (for those who turn off image
viewing)
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Add META information in header. For example:
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Ron
Maddalena">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="web page
design;html;html editors;html tools">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="A Technical
seminar on web page creation">
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Always add a 'title' to the page.
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Check the page on various browsers; various screen
sizes; on a PC, UNIX, and Mac; with images on and off.
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If you've used images for navigation, also add a text
menu of links
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In all cases, add a link back to the 'home' page of
your site.
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When possible, add height/width information for images
-- speeds up the browser's ability to layout a screen.
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While your at it, chop down the sizes of those image
sizes even more and speed up a page's download speed.
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Make sure you use the proper structures for the proper
content. For example, headings should be within header
structures.
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If link points to a large file/image for, warn the
viewer of the size of the object.
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Use PDF files, not PostScript, for the general public.
Not many have PS printers or GhostView installed on their home
computers.
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Check for broken links (now and forever more).
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Check that you've used relative pathnames whenever
possible.
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Download your pages to where our web server can find
them and test them from there.
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Advertise your site. Publicize/Register it with
Yahoo, AltaVista, etc. or use www.netcreations.com/postmaster or
www.submit.it.com to submit your site to more than one search index
and directory.