How frustrating is it when you are browsing the web and you hit an error or a problem on a web site?
You might be searching for something in particular and you a click on a link and find a ‘Page not found’ message or you want to buy a product and you hit ‘Buy now’ but nothing happens.
Very frustrating. But your need has not been fulfilled, you still want to find that thing you were looking for or you still want to purchase that product. So you click back to your search engine results and click on the next web site that looks like it might have what you are looking for.
The owner or operator of those web sites have lost out because their web site had a problem, either an intermittent or permanent issue that prevented the user, or customer, from getting what they wanted.
How do you know if your web site suffers from problems such as this? How do you prevent similar problems if you are launching a new web site?
Through testing your web site, again and again.
Testing Web Sites is a new blog that aims to offer hints and tips for free to make it easier for you to test your own web site. We hope you find the information provided useful and that you will contact us if you do not have the inclination, motivation or simply the time to complete the testing yourself.
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Perhaps you need more convincing on the need to test web sites – Why Test Web Sites?