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Remember a site's non-technical issues too Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2006-07-07 00:47:37 - Graham Ellis
From the PHP course yesterday ... we came up with a list of extra considerations (beyond the narrow technical) for your PHP Web applications. Thought you might like to share the checklist ...
Search Engine Optimisation
Good URLs
Good Original Content
Links from / to other good sites
Clear HTML
Code to help search engines
Regular site updates
Using keywords
Providing ALT tags on images
Provide a robots.txt file
Commercial Matters
Do you WANT this data found?
Competitors
Moving old data out the way
Security
Domain Protection
Legal
Disability Discrimitation Act
Copyright
Libel
Decency
Racial hatred, incitement, etc
Privacy
Data Protection
Acceptable User Policy
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