| Checkpoint | puresilva website template | Your website |
| W3C Compliant (X)HTML | Yes |
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| Website shows in various screen resolutions (e.g. 800 x 600, 1024 x 768) without horizontal scrolling? |
Yes |
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| Various browsers and versions rendering OK? (e.g. IE, Firefox, Opera) | Yes |
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| Web pages load quickly, light imagery? | Yes |
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| Contrast of text with background - easy to read? | Yes |
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| Navigation links clearly described? | Yes |
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| Main navigation in same place on each page? | Yes |
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| Most important pages present in main navigation? | Yes |
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| Use of anchor text only (e.g. no javascript menu)? | Yes |
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| Is there an explicit link back to the home page? | Yes |
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| For larger sites, is there a textfield search? | Yes |
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| Are visited and non-visited links distinguishable from one another? | Yes |
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| Are links clearly distinguishable from normal text? | Yes |
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| Are images described by alt-tags? | Yes |
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| How clear are images? Are they relevant? | Yes |
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| How easy to find phone number/contact form? | Depends on user content |
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| Mouseclicks - basic actions performed in as few clicks as possible? | Yes |
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| Does user know what to expect after performing an action (such as entering shipping details)? | Yes |
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| If you use Flash, Javascript or other technologies that users may not use/have disabled, is the site still functional? | Yes |
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| Browser navigation is never disabled (sometimes developers deliberately disable the backbutton - not good)? | Yes |
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| Is there a consistant use of colours, fonts and text sizes throughout the site? | Yes |
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| Is the content in the same place on every page (i.e. users know where to focus on intuitively)? | Yes |
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| Spelling/grammatical error check | Depends on user content |
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| Plain English check - are you using too much jargon or waffling with cliches and tired sales-pitch? Users are skimming your pages so you want to get your point across succinctly | Depends on user content |
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| How quick to ascertain purpose of site | Depends on user content |
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| Call to actions in wording? | Depends on user content |
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| Are URLs search engine friendly? | Yes |
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| Unique TITLE, META description and keywords on every page that describe what is on the particular page (as opposed to your website in general)? | Yes |
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| Internal linking - good anchor text and structure? | Yes |
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| Headline tags present on pages (H1, H2 etc)? | Yes |
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| Are H1, URL, TITLE tags fairly uniform on every page (i.e. they're not conflicting with one another diluting page's SEO) | Yes |
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| Is content rich with relevant keyphrases? | Depends on user content |
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| No use of graphical text? | Yes |
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| External links - is there a way to easily reciprocate links with potential link partners (i.e. easy to use content manangement) | Yes |
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| External links - you are slowly building up relevant link partners to your site to boost search engine rankings for website (see our SEO service here) | Yes |