Top 15 Things to Check for When Launching Your Shiny New Site

Ahh, launch day. A stressful, nerve racking and ultimately exciting time! You stay late, you bust your butt getting things working and then you push things up live…only to come into work the next day to a soon to be behemoth sized email thread of fixes. Well, one way to prevent the “morning after” blues of a launch is to run things through a checklist. Depending on how meticulously you’ve been keeping things in the creation process, this could be a very quick thing to run through, or if you’ve been a little rushed getting to launch, it could take a few hours. In the end though, its worth it all to have a spit and polished site instead of a contact from your boss, or heaven forbid, your client that it something is broken. The answer? A launch checklist!

So Many Browsers, Just One Problem

IE6 denial message – Illustration by RobotJohnny It’s not that it’s cool to hate Internet Explorer; it’s just so damn easy. Internet Explorer is the sharp, depressing pain in every web designer/developer’s neck. Sadly, it… More