Navigation/Content

1. If you are a college or academic unit, you must follow the recommended navigation.
2. Go through the content checklist to be sure you've done your banner correctly and included necessary pieces of content.
3. The heading markup at the top of your page should start as an h2 and be properly nested from there (h3, h4, up to h6).
4. Delete or remove from menu any pages that are not finished. The way to do this is in your "Group Information" tab. Here you'll see your page's group and an "other groups" field; you'll want to change your page's group to "delete," save, publish. This page will now be moved to the "delete" group and out of your group.
5. If you have pages that you are not linking to, rename them with the word "delete" in the title.
6. Click on every link in your site. If it doesn't work or is going to the wrong location, fix it. Please remember that your "old"/current site is going away, so remove links back to it.
7. Do a thorough review of your text (including ALT text) and correct any typos, misspellings, or grammatical errors. 
8. Be sure that you have not copy/pasted the links into the URL fields. If the page name changes, they will break. Also, Google will not search these pages as they'll hold onto the development url. You should use the linking tool that links to the node/xxxxx number.
9. Add the PDF tag to the end of PDF links. In other words: "This is your link (PDF)." Do the same for Word docs, mov, etc.
10. Get rid of the words "Click Here" or "go here" -- use a more descriptive link or make the words in question the link.
11. Do not randomly spawn new tabbed windows when you create a link.

General Design

1. Check for excess space between sections -- if there are any, delete them.
2. Check for consistency -- both on pages and between pages--For example -- sidebar headings should be the same from page-to-page. If you use an h3 on one page, use it on the next page's sidebar too.
3. Don't leave empty sidebars -- change the layout so that it accommodates the content you have. For example, in the "Two-column content, full-width image" layout, you have to have sidebar content to support using this.
4. If you have tables -- remove the table width. Follow directions in our web guide.
5. When inlining images use the "styles" edit tool to indicate imageleft or imageright.
6. Update any photos that were placeholders (don't just use the curated image library, use our other image libraries).

Images

1. Check for alt tags where there should be alt tags. Hint: On your Workbench, go to "My Files" at the bottom of the page. Where it says "View or Edit this file", you can see if there's an alt tag and add one if there is not.
2. If you have used stock images as image placeholders, replace them with your intended images.
3. Consider the effectiveness of your images -- sometimes pages are better without them. leave the page without photos. Large image = load time.
4. Get rid of repeating images at the tops of pages. It causes confusion and makes site visitors feel like they never left the previous page!?

Accessibility

1. Take the mandatory accessibility training.
2. Go through our guidelines on accessibility and be sure that your site conforms to them.
3. Review the most common accessibility issues we see at launch.
4. Use the WAVE accessibility check tool.