Comprehensive Guide before Launching your Website
For this article, we have listed the steps you can follow to test your web design sharjah or eCommerce store before it goes online.
Check all links
Make sure all links on your website or online store are tested. All links must be visible, stand out, and have a "hover effect" (feedback to the user about what the link does). In addition, the destinations of all links must be tested, as they must lead to an existing page and this page must match the purpose of the link (so that “dead” links are avoided).
Check all call-to-action elements
The next step is to check all call-to-action elements on your website. Calls to actions include:
- Buttons
- Forms
- plugins
Make sure that all buttons lead to the action they are intended for (menu buttons, footer text buttons, order buttons, notification buttons, etc.). Verify forms by sending both valid and invalid information with it, so you can also immediately check the form's validations, i.e. the error/success reports, file previews, and any other feedback users need to see while filling out the form . Also remember to check the database or e-mail addresses that should receive the information, so that you are sure that you receive the information from forms in good order.
For online stores it is important to check whether all ordering processes work before finalizing eCommerce website development Dubai. To do this, try ordering a few things from your webshop and then try the different delivery and payment options. Also check your administration dashboard to see if the orders reach you as the owner of the website so that you can prevent potential complaints.
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small data packets, composed of numbers and letters, that are used by websites to store information about browsing status on your hard drive. Each time a user comes back to the same website, the website will load the cookies that are stored. This also identifies the user.
Does your website use cookies? If so, then you are obliged by the Cookie Act to inform your website visitors and to ask for explicit permission from the user side to use cookies.
Privacy Policy and Disclaimer
If your website receives and/or processes personal data from users, you are obliged by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to inform your customers about the data you collect and the purpose for this data collection. It is advisable to have this document written by a lawyer who specializes in internet law to ensure that it complies with current GDPR regulations. It is common practice to place the links to the Privacy Policy and Disclaimer in the footer of the website.
Web Analytics
Although they are not mandatory, we always recommend connecting an Analytics platform to the website. With an analytics platform you can measure your sales and conversions. In addition, you see current information about the users who have visited your website, the source they came from, the pages they opened and how much time they spent on each page.
Content
Check the content of all pages. Are all pages filled with the correct text and images (and thus no longer with lorem ipsum )? Also check immediately whether the layout is still correct and whether there are no typos.
Error pages
Search your website for error messages such as the “404 - page not found” error. In these cases you get a standard PHP / Browser code error 404, but you can also adapt this error to the design of your website. By adjusting this error message you can, for example, keep the website navigation at the top so that users can easily navigate back to the page they came from. In addition, you can also add a report button so that your users can immediately report broken links, so that you can ensure that the broken links are fixed faster.
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