Checklist
Launch and maintenance sheet
What to check on launch day and once a month afterwards, so the site stays quick and working.
Print this page and keep it with your site notes. The monthly checks take a few minutes.
On launch day
- Open the site on a phone and on a computer
- Click every link in the menu and the footer
- Send a test message through the contact form
- Check the form arrives in the right inbox
- Confirm the address people will type
- Save a copy of the final files somewhere safe
Once a month
- Load the home page on mobile data and time it
- Look for any page that fails to load
- Send yourself a test message through the form
- Update anything that needs updating, after a backup
- Read the site on a phone and fix anything broken
Content
- Check prices and opening hours are still right
- Remove anything you no longer offer
- Add anything new worth mentioning
- Replace any photo that has gone out of date
When to call us
- A page has become slow and you cannot see why
- The contact form has stopped arriving
- You want a new page or a new section
- Something on the site looks wrong and you are not sure why
Keep the login details for your domain and hosting somewhere you can find them.