If you have just completed a website and are thinking about putting your feet up and taking a break, perhaps hold that thought for a little while longer. As time consuming and redundant as it may seem, it is absolutely critical that you run a battery of tests to ensure that your website is free of serious errors and robust enough to take care of itself. You've checked all your web pages in three or four different browsers, right?

Here's a short checklist of the main things you need to look out for:

If you're confident that your new site has a tick next to each item on the above list, it's time to put your feet up. Remember, all good websites should have facilities to make the above points easy to handle. Each time you create a new website, finishing the job is simply a case of running through each point.