A list of important but easily forgotten tasks for the busy webmaster.

• Content To Dos

  • Decide upon your goals and audience.
  • Focus pages.
  • Tend outbound links.
  • Check linked and embedded files.

• Web Design To Dos

  • Follow standards
  • Test usability.
  • Test accessibility.
  • Optimise pages.
  • Allow for visitor environment variability

• Data To Dos

  • Protect Forms
  • Secure database scripts
  • Secure email scripts

• Web Server To Dos

  • Send a status 404 response for page not found.
  • Set up a custom 404.
  • Set up canonical name redirects with 301 redirects to individual URLs.
  • Simplify nested redirects.