Your project is now well advanced, you have already composed the main pages of your website, and you are now thinking about publishing it. What remains to be done? Here is the ultimate checklist: the five most important points to finalize before publishing to open your website to the public.
1. The domain name
Any professional project by Do My Class For Me must have its own address: your visitor should not worry about the host on which you have deployed your site. Not only is it much easier to remember a simple address, ending with .com or .fr for example, but this will have many other positive impacts: it is, among other things, a crucial point for the referencing of your website on search engines. It is also a guarantee of freedom, allowing you to choose your name more freely, but also to change hosts as you wish without losing your traffic.
However, it is very easy and relatively cheap to buy a domain name. You will find several guides on this same site:
- How to buy a domain name?
- How to connect an existing domain name with OnlineCreation.me, using Cloudflare?
2. Fill in the legal notices
It is a legal obligation in France: any site with a commercial vocation (or not) must display some information about its author and its legal representative. The goal is to put the visitor in confidence: in the event of a problem, he knows who to contact, and who to talk to.
- What are the mandatory legal notices while in France?
3. Check spelling and grammar
French is a difficult language, typing errors happen quickly and rereading your own text is often not very productive. The problem is that some of your visitors will see the smallest details that you missed.
Fortunately, tools exist: first of all, there is your browser’s spell checker (accessible using the right click of your mouse), which underlines in red the words you have misspelled, but there is also websites capable of checking the chords and grammar of your text:
- bonpatron.com
- Reverso.net Concealer
4. Test your site
You wrote it, and you saw it on your own browser and your own computer, but is your website its file correctly on other devices (another browser, another computer, a tablet, a mobile phone, etc.) ? The best way to make sure and test it for yourself is to ask someone close to testing it for you.
If you do not use a tablet or smartphone on a daily basis, you can find them at very low prices on sites such as Banggood.com for example.
To make your life easier, some websites offer to do this for you. For example, Microsoft.com Developers offers you to take pictures of your site on several different browsers, on several different devices.
5. Introduce it to a loved one
You have been working on your website for several days, maybe even several months. You probably handle it on a daily basis, knowing full well what its content is and how to access it. But is this as natural for you as it will be for your visitors?
To be sure, introduce him to a loved one, without giving him any explanations and simply observe his reactions. Does it place mice where you normally would? Is it click where you intended? Does it find the information you offer? Depending on this study, do not hesitate to review the organization of your website and repeat the test with someone else.
Get started!
There are of course dozens of things to study with a website, but if you have already checked these five points, you can start with peace of mind: no other problem is unsolvable. So get started, now is the experience that will make your website evolve!
