This document discusses testing, publishing, and promoting a website. It emphasizes the importance of thoroughly testing a website using different methods before publishing, including ensuring proper navigation, functionality, accessibility, and responsiveness across devices. Once testing is complete, the website should be published by acquiring a domain name and server space, then uploading all files. Various promotion techniques are described to help reach the target audience and maximize search engine exposure for the published website.

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Web Design 6E
Chapter 7: Promoting and Maintaining a Website
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Chapter Objectives
•Explain how to test a website before it is published
•Describe how to publish a website to a web server
•Identify ways to promote a published website
•Discuss the importance of maintaining and evaluating a
published website
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Website Testing (1 of 2)
•Ensure navigation is user-based and user-controlled
•Identify structural problems or content issues
•Evaluate the following:
• Does my website meet its goals and objectives?
• Does the design and functionality incorporate UX?
• Have I met accessibility standards?
• Have I incorporated RWD standards?
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Website Testing (2 of 2)
•Beta testing involves using a prepublication version
• Beta website
• Some are password-protects
•Staging server enables testing in environment similar to
live web server
•Sometimes testing occurs on two or more website
versions
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Self- and Internal Testing
•Limited to those involved in web design
• Images and multimedia should appear and work
• Test the navigation and search tools
• Test internal and external links
-Broken link does not work
• WAI guidelines
• Use optimization tools
• RWD compliance
• Correct any problems
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Target Audience Testing (1 of 3)
•Recruit outside testers
• Use a variety of devices and screen sizes
• Colleagues not involved in development
• Target audience
• Test navigation and links
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Target Audience Testing (2 of 3)
•Which pages appear to appeal to them?
•Which pages appear to disinterest them?
•How much time do they spend on various pages?
•Which links do they visit or ignore?
•How easily do they navigate the website?
•Do they at any time demonstrate any confusion or
frustration?
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Target Audience Testing (3 of 3)
•Ask testers to complete a UX survey
• Did the website’s content satisfy wants, needs, expectations
• Was the content interesting and valuable?
• Was it easy or difficult to navigate?
•After testing, consider all feedback
•Implement suggestions that support goals and
objectives, meet audience needs, improve value
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Website Publishing
•After testing, publish to live server
• Acquire a domain name
• Allot server space
• Upload files
-HTML and CSS
-Images
-Multimedia
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Domain Name (1 of 2)
•Use business or organization name
•Avoid abbreviations and hyphens
•Add words that further specify purpose
•Purchase as many TLDs as possible
•Use an accredited registrar
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Domain Name (2 of 2)
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Server Space (1 of 3)
•A web server runs server software
• Displays webpages upon browser request
•Web hosting companies offer space for monthly fee
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Server Space (2 of 3)
•Web servers can be dedicated, shared, cloud-based
•Dedicated web server hosts only hour website
•Shared web server hosts multiple websites
• Virtual private server (VPS) dedicated space on shared
server
•Cloud-based web servers offer virtual storage
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Server Space (3 of 3)
•How much server space will I have? Are there limits
•What is procedure for updating and republishing pages?
•Support for e-commerce, multimedia, interactivity?
•What is typical response time for technical support?
•Does the server experience outages?
•Have servers had security breaches?
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Uploading Website Folders and Files
•Uploading all website files to the server specified by your
web hosting service
• Dedicated folder
• Know name and URL of server
• Before uploading, move unnecessary files to save space and
limit page loading time
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Content Management System
•You save files to host’s web server as you create them
•Files exist on server but not on the web until you publish
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File Transfer Protocol (1 of 2)
•An FTP client is used to transfer files using the FTP
protocol
•Provides split view of folders and files on a local
computer and remote computer
•After you publish the website, you can sync the
files, which makes sure they any changed files are
the same on both servers.
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File Transfer Protocol (2 of 2)
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Web Design Tool (1 of 2)
•Allows you to upload your website directly from
within the program
•You need to arrange for server space
• Provide name and URL of server
• Username and password
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Web Design Tool (2 of 2)
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Retesting Published Pages
•Confirm that all images display properly
•Make certain that no broken links exist
•Ensure all interactive elements function properly
•Correct the page file(s) and then upload the corrected
page file to the server
•Skim the content
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Website Promotion
•Promote your website to reach the target audience
•Use online and offline promotional techniques
•Maximize search tool exposure
•Consider purchasing ads
• Geotargeting provides ad content based on visitor’s location
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Social Media (1 of 3)
•Basic social media presence is easy a nd free
•Share updates
•Invite customers to events
•Ask for feedback
•Create targeted ads
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Social Media (2 of 3)
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Social Media (3 of 3)
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Search Engine Optimization
•SEO refers to applying design and development
techniques to appear at top of search results
• Include meta tags
• Page titles
• Clearly worded text
• Density of keywords
-Keyword stuffing is adding commonly used terms to increase
rankings
• Incoming links
•Consider hiring an SEO expert
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Search Tool Indexing
•When your website appears in indexes, visitors can find
it using relevant keywords
•Can register your URL with search engines and
directories
• Bing
• Google
•A Search tool submission service registers websites with
multiple search tools
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Online Advertising (1 of 4)
•Google AdWord and Bing Ads
•Pay-per-click
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Online Advertising (2 of 4)
•Banner ads are rectangular ads that link to website
• Vertical banners are sidebar ads
•Click-through is when visitors click the ad to reach the
advertiser’s website
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Online Advertising (3 of 4)
•Rich media ads contain multimedia elements
• Floating ads
• Expandable banner ads
• Multimedia ads
• Pop-up ads
• Pop-under ads
•Publishers charge based on impressions (number of
views)
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Online Advertising (4 of 4)
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Mobile and In-App Advertising
•Mobile web ads appear in mobile
version of website
•In-app ads appear while using an
app
• More expensive than mobile web ads
• In-video ads
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Advertising Networks and Affiliate Programs (1 of 2)
•Advertisers want to purchase ads
•Publishers sell ads on their websites
•Advertising networks complete ad sale transactions
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Advertising Networks and Affiliate Programs (2 of 2)
•Affiliate Programs are e-commerce performance-
based online advertising programs
• Advertiser pays a fee or commission on sales generated
by links on publishers’ websites
• Landing pages
•Affiliate management networks establish
relationship between advertisers and publishers
•Reciprocal links are between two website owners
who place links to each other’s websites on their
webpages
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Opt-In Advertising
•Opt-in Advertising
• Also called permission-based advertising
• Recipient must formally agree to receive advertising
• The recipient gets information he or she wants, and the
advertiser can send a targeted message
• Creating a list of opt-in subscribers often is a focus of calls-to-
action
• Always provide options to unsubscribe
• Avoid sending spam
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Offline Promotional Techniques
•Word-of-mouth
• Telling people about your website
•Printed material
• URL appears on printed materials
• QR codes
•Promotional giveaways
• Magnets, coffee mugs, coasters, T-shirts, etc.
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Website Maintenance and Evaluation
•The web is a dynamic environment
•Rapid changes in technology and visitors’ expectations
•The work of maintaining a website never ends
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Ongoing Maintenance, Updating, and Retesting (1 of 2)
•Add and promote timely content
•Include calls-to-action
•Maintain functional navigation system
•Use analytics
•Evaluate and implement new technologies
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Ongoing Maintenance, Updating, and Retesting (2 of 2)
•Most web design tools and CMS platforms include
capability to update page content by editing HTML files
• Ensure you have the most current HTML file and backup
originals
• Edit webpage
• Preview the webpage
• Upload or republish webpage
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Evaluating Website Performance (1 of 2)
•After publishing, evaluate the website performance
towards achieving goals and purpose
•Analytics determine fees a website can charge for ads
•Large websites follow a formal evaluation plan
•Professional marketers provide complete analytic
packages
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Evaluating Website Performance (2 of 2)
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Analytics (1 of 2)
•Web analytics (also called web metrics)
• Server log analysis
• Geolocation
• Device type
• Social media sharing
• Tracking cookies
• Page tagging
• Sales data
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Analytics (2 of 2)
•Unique visitors are individual website visitors
•Repeat visitors visits more than once
•Page views determine page popularity
•Click-stream analysis identifies how a user moves
through website
•Conversion rate is rate at which shoppers buy
•Monetization overall profit
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Benchmarking
•Benchmarking involves using a defined standard to
measure overall performance or evaluate a specific
aspect of a website
•After evaluation, adjust benchmark goals as necessary
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Web Server Log Analysis
•Web server log analysis provides:
• Requesting computer’s IP address
• Browser making the request
• Date and time of request
• URUL of referring link
• Path a visitor takes through website
•Web server log analysis software
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Chapter Summary
•Explain how to test a website before it is published
•Describe how to publish a website to a web server
•Identify ways to promote a published website
•Discuss the importance of maintaining and evaluating a
published website
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