Friday, October 5, 2007

Week 5 Blog - How to test your website

I have read an article about how to test your website.

Here are the steps of testing a website.

Document Type Definition (DOCTYPE)
We need to add < !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >
for each of pages.

Character Encoding
We need to add meta < content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" equiv="Content-Type">for each of page.

Validated the each page of the website
The W3C Validation Service.
WDG HTML Validator
Tidy the HTML coding tool and validation: HTML Tidy

Checked the spelling of the content in the website
WDG HTML Validator

Verified the all links in the website
broken links
Link Check

Determine the download times for each page
WDG HTML Validator

Testing the website by using different browser
Browsershots.org
For example, i test Dr. Chun Website, the result is Here !

Evaluation of comment from the other people
To see whether they are satisfied the website or need to improve the website

Backup copy of the files
To prevent data lose

~Hope All of You Enjoy My Sharing~

1 comment:

vientoho said...

The tool of testing the website by using different browser is very useful~~!!