Web Developer Checklist

Best practices

• Fix broken linksi
  • W3C link checker
  • iWebTool Broken Link Checker
• Spell-check
• Check website in all browsersi
  • Win8 snapped sites
  • BrowserShots.org
  • Browserling.com
• Remove 'www' subdomaini
  • no-www.org score of B
  • Remove "www" in web.config

Mobile

• MobileOK score of 75+i
  • W3C mobile checker
• Use 'viewport' meta-tagi
  • Don’t Forget the Viewport Meta Tag
  • Make your website mobile friendly
• Use correct input typesi
  • Input type: Email, Url, Phone
  • Diving in to HTML5 forms
• Manual check using emulatorsi
  • 6 free mobile emulators
  • Opera Mobile Emulator

Analytics

• Uptime monitoringi
  • Uptime robot
  • GotSiteMonitor.com
• Traffic analysisi
  • Google Analytics
  • StatCounter
  • Clicky

Accessibility

• Accessibility validationi
  • Common problems and solutions
  • IDI Web Accessibility Checker
  • WAVE accessibility checker
• Color contrasti
  • Check color contrast online
• Implement WAI-ARIAi
  • Guide to WAI-ARIA
  • Getting started with accessibility
  • Practical examples

Usability

• HTML5 compatibility checki
  • Compat Inspector
  • Modernizr JS library
• Custom 404 pagei
  • A more useful 404
  • Custom error pages in ASP.NET
• Faviconi
  • Online generator
  • How to properly link a favicon
• Use friendly URLsi
  • 11 best practices for URLs
  • URL rewriting in IIS
  • URL rewrite in Apache
• Add P3P policyi
  • How to deply P3P
  • Configure IIS to use P3P
  • P3P validator
• Add search featurei
  • Google Custom Search

Code quality

• HTML validationi
  • W3C HTML Validator
  • Dr. Watson
• CSS Validationi
  • W3C CSS Validator
• World Readyi
  • W3C i18n Checker
• Run CSS Linti
  • Run CSS Lint Online
  • CssCop for VS 2010
  • Web Essentials for VS2012
• Run JSLint/JSHinti
  • Run JSLint Online
  • Run JSHint Online
  • Web Essentials for VS2012

Performance

• Google Page Speed score of 90+i
  • Google Page Speed
• Yahoo YSlow score of 85+i
  • Yahoo's YSlow
  • Remove ETags in ASP.NET
• Web Page Test score of 90+i
  • WebPageTest.Org
• Optimize HTTP headersi
  • redbot.org
• Optimize imagesi
  • SmushIt.com
  • PunyPNG.com
  • Image Optimizer for Visual Studio
  • PNGGauntlet application

Semantics

• Add meaning with Microdatai
  • Schema.org reference
  • Schema-Creator.org
• Check the semanticsi
  • W3C semantic extractor

SEO

• SenSEO score of 85+i
  • SenSEO for Firefox
• Google Rich Snippetsi
  • Online tester
  • Getting started
• robots.txti
  • robots.txt tutorial
  • Create robots.txt online
• XML sitemapi
  • Create sitemap online

Security

• Implement best practicesi
  • OWASP Top 10 project
  • OWASP Cheat Sheets
  • ASafaaWeb security analyzer
• Cross-site scriptingi
  • XSS cheat sheet
  • DOM based XSS cheat sheet
  • Free XSS scanner
• Cross-site request forgeryi
  • Explanation and walkthrough
  • CSRF cheat sheet
• Prevent tamperingi
  • Prevent HTML form tampering
• Secure connection (SSL)i
  • Setup SSL on IIS 7
  • Setup SSL on Apache
  • Online SSL checker

...and finally

• Add humans.txti
  • We are humans, not machines!

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