Verification checks that your web pages look and function properly. Verification focuses on:

• Site Aesthetics
• Does the site layout, typography, and creative elements look right
• Linking
• Do all pages hyperlink to the correct pages
• Logic
• Does all scripting work properly

Development Guide Tips

• Often it is difficult to catch all errors in a site. Create a mechanism for users to report a problem once the site is in production.

Further Reading

A Focus Group is a selected set of people used to test and evaluate a concept or product. Focus groups can be used in web site development to verify various aspects of site design.

Focus Group Tips

• A focus group is an outstanding tool for validating that your site is in alignment with your target audiences needs.
• Focus groups are most commonly 6 to 12 people made up of a statistically proportionate representation of a targeted demographic.

Further Reading

As web developers we do a lot of browser testing. It would be nice if everyone used the same browser (Firefox 3, for example) but they don’t. Believe it or not, there are still people out there who are using Firefox 2, which is why we need a way to install and run this now outdated web browser. Unfortunately, Firefox does not make this easy.