One of my very favorite reasons for preferring a website over a printed brochure for advertising your business is that it is easy to fix mistakes and typos. Once a brochure is printed, you have an expensive reprint in order to fix mistakes. The thing about a website is that it needs to be tested after completion. The links need to be tested and especially all forms and interactive items that communicate to/from your users. When filling out the form make sure that it gets to you in the way it should. If it is in email, make sure you get it. If it is in a database, make sure it caches it. Also, when filling out the form, make sure the form has all the fields that you want or need on it and that the information filled out in the fields comes through to you. When a web master finishes building your site, it is time to check everything. Don’t wait until a user calls and asks if you got the message from your website.
It is also important to check your forms months and years after being built. One problem that can happen is your web server could block the very email from your site and, where you once received the email, it may be down and blocking it. The only way a link will break is if the place you are sending it to has been taken down. Read more…