Web page essentials checklist

I’m aware that some of this one was about as much fun as trying to work out complex quadratic equations in your head, but as mentioned at the start, you need to know this stuff. Imagine designing a site and it suddenly not working the way you thought it would. It looks fine in your web design package and also in some web browsers, but it starts falling apart in others. Just removing an XML declaration might be enough to fix the site. If you take the elements of this post and form them into a simple checklist, you won’t have to risk displaying those wonderful “Untitled Documents” to the entire world (or inadvertently advertising the pack age you used to create the page). To make your life easier,you can refer to this checklist:

1. Ensure the relevant DOCTYPE declaration and namespace is in place.
2. Remove the XML declaration if it’s lurking.
3. Add a title tag and some content within it.
4. Add a meta tag to define your character set.
5. If required, add keywords and description meta tags.
6. Attach a CSS file (or files).
7. Attach a JavaScript file (or files).
8. If your web editor adds superfluous body attributes, delete them.
9. Ensure there are no characters prior to the DOCTYPE declaration or after the html end tag.
10. Ensure no web page content appears outside the body element.

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