Launching websites

[david...@gmail.com]

Hi,

This is slightly off topic, but I can imagine some of you might have faced this situation. I've been launching quite a few websites lately. It usually involves at least the following for me:

- Domain registration and DNS setup

- Server/Host configuration: Heroku setup (registration, environment variables for some of the steps above) or Docker setup

- Deployment

- Security aspects: TLS certificates, HTTPS setup, HTTP security headers, etc

- Legal aspects: cookie policy, T&Cs, privacy, etc (implications from other steps)

- Email: basic setup, SPF/DKIM for the spam, create RFC email addresses, etc

- Mailing list setup (MailChimp or others)

- Social media: signup to a few social networks, add "social sharing" buttons

- Analytics/instrumentation/monitoring (Google Analytics, New Relic, etc)

- Search engine registration/indexation (Google, Bing)

- etc

Some of these steps are interlinked and that's only for fairly "basic website" without any payment, A/B testing, user feedback or advertising requirements.

None of it is particularly complex, although it does require some knowledge/experience, but it takes quite a lot of time and feels repetitive.

There are lots of great products/services for the individual steps involved, but I can't find anything to streamline the whole (or at least part of the) process.

Does anyone know any good tool, product, checklist or website for this? Do you have the same problem? How do you handle this yourself?

Thanks for your help.

David

[Sergiy Khohlov]

Hello David,
You have mixed different tasks. I have a question for you.
What kind of goal do you have?
Are you planing to have mail server, web server, dev box etc?
How much money are you going to spend?
Do you have sysadmin ?
Of course first question has high priority.

Thanks.,
Serge

8 серп. 2016 18:20 <david...@gmail.com> пише:

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[david...@gmail.com]

Hi Serge,

Thanks for the reply.

I agree it is a mix of different tasks, but they are all needed when starting a new business/product/service website. As it happens it is something I had to do on quite a few occasions lately for some of my customers.

I'm trying to find out if there is a better way to do this (as it feels that it always the same process) and see if it is a problem that other people are facing (and how they are solving it if they are). This is mostly when launching the site to the public. I can and have done all the steps multiple times. However, it feels like there should be quicker way to do it. It can easily take up to a full day when adding all of them.

Thanks

Arnaud

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[Andreas Kuhne]

Hi,

I don't know what level you are interested in, but I think this course will be interesting:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikeckennedy/python-for-entrepreneurs-video-course

It'll probably contain some of the items you are requesting.

Regards,

Andréas

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[M Hashmi]

It completely depends on nature of your site or business you intend to manifest virtually. So I would keep it generic and to the point that is required for most of business models.

General Checklist:

Terms of use

Contact page

About page

Transactional emails setup

SMTP setup

Google analytics setup

Strong passwords on server, backend, etc

Google webmaster setup

Server monitoring setup

Server backups setup

Server security

Minify JavaScript, css, html, svg, etc

SSL setup

Setup conversion goal tracking in google analytics for sign up, buy, etc

Change nameservers

Add sitelinks search box schema to Homepage

Cross browser tested

Create social network accounts

Logging

Security (you may have different layers like, django security, Web server security for Apache, Nginx or whatever you choose to work with)

SEO related CheckList:

Sitemap

Robot.txt 

Meta title tags

Meta description tags

Image alt tags

Image title tags

H1 tag

SEO friendly URLs

No follow tags

Google pagespeed insights

Category names 

Duplicate pages

Canonical tags

Redirect www to non-www

Redirect http to https

For high level deployment checklist related to Django please see:

 https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/deployment/checklist/

You can add more depending on nature of your site but again that depends what you are doing.

Regards,

Mudassar

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