The Ultimate Agaric Web Site Design, Development, and Deployment Checklist

This is a work in progress.

Standard configuration

• (very outdated) See here; to be incorporated into an installation profile.

All sites, golive

• cron
• spam protection
• performance optimization
  • Page compression OFF (it is handled by the server). @TODO- consider forcing this in settings.php
  • Theme registry rebuild OFF
  • Page caching ON
  • CSS and JS aggregation ON)

Replacing an existing site

• Port all desired content (if non-Drupal; otherwise upgrade), retaining URL paths
• Check for e-mail addresses in use on that domain and create mailboxes and forwarders as needed.
• Set up the DNS settings with our DNS tools before
• Switch the nameservers to our nameservers only after all content and non-site functionality such as e-mail is accounted for.

Testing

• Browser testing
  • Firefox 3
  • Firefox 4
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Internet Explorer 8
  • Opera (current only)
  • Safari 3
  • Chrome
  • Lynx (for Mac)
• Run the site through validators, especially for accessibility.
  • http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/
  • http://validator.w3.org/

@TODO look at and incorporate http://blog.urbaninsight.com/2011/06/27/14-must-do-items-your-drupal-post-launch-checklist