Like the movie “Bucket List”, whose main plot is the story of two terminally ill men on a road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket", there’s a website who needs a bucket list.
This is about a website who is terminally ill and will die soon if it’s not moved to another server. It has only this one chance for resuscitation. The site will die on one server and move to another. What does the bucket list for this website prior to killing it look like? The site needs this bucket list in preparation of dying but yet, then again; to also live, fly, love and sing pretty little melodies of Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching….
I’ve started the “Bucket List”. I think it’s important in several ways but this bucket list will mostly be of great help to other sites who are terminally ill and needing to die, yet only live again.
Website Bucket List:
1. 301 dynamic product sku pages, once the dynamic pages are moved to static if doing so.
a. This may be an ongoing process
b. Simple Automation?
2. Code in Absolute URL’s, NOT Relative URL’s
3. DNS Server Change
4. Spam Services ie. App River Changes
5. Technical Site Move Specifics
6. Error Handling – ie.
a. 400 Bad Request
b. 403 Forbidden
c. 404 Not Found
d. 405 Method Not Allowed
e. 406 Not Acceptable
f. 500 Internal Server Error
7. SSL Certificates
a. Will the SSL Certs move or get new ones?
8. Sitemap
a. Create new one?
b. Address future Modifications & Updates
c. Automate sitemap creation?
9. Site search box linkage
10. Robots.txt
11. .htaccess file
12. HTTP Server Headers
13. Find out who links to the site and have their URL’s adjusted if necessary.
14. Internal Site Page Links
15. Address all Dynamic URL’s
16. Shopping Cart Functionality & Security
