Spring Cleaning - Time To Review Your Websites

It’s that time of the year.. we’re still in the thick of winter, but Spring isn’t far off.

Before the really beautiful weather gets here is the perfect time to review your website(s) and assess where improvements can be made. Just like getting underneath the hood of a car and making sure that your cars fluids are full and everything is screwed down tight, websites need maintenance from time to time to perform optimally.

Things worth reviewing on your website.

1. Make sure that all of your published Email addresses work. There is nothing worse than missing an important contact because your Email address was invalid or wasn’t able to be delivered.

2. Check to make sure that links on your website haven’t went bad. Many domains on the internet don’t stay the same forever. Sometimes domains expire or lead to a “park.” Removing these dead types of links from your website will provide a better user experience for your reader.

3. Try a new design or layout. It’s almost like being able to change the furniture in your living room. It’s the same great website or blog with a different look and feel. This is especially easy because many layouts for blogs are available for free.

4. Patch your hardware/software. Make sure that you stay on top of patches for your hardware and software - this will help prevent corruptions within your database or computer. Be sure that you have a backup of your “last known good config” just in case.

5. Double check that your site is cross browser compatible. Just because your website looks wonderful in one browser doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to translate to another. Firefox and Internet Explorer are two of the more popular browsers used today.

If you still have energy after doing all of this, you can use it to clean out your office and the car.

Now get moving! You’ll be happy that you did.

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