Web design Terms and Conditions

Starting work for a lucrative new web project can be an exciting time – until you realize that your terms and conditions have let you down. Without defining in great detail what is – and is not – included in your work arrangements with new clients, you’re risking longer hours and out of pocket expenses that will lessen the income earned from the work you provide.

This very thing happened to my friend Lisa, a web designer from California. When she started her business, Lisa forgot to stipulate that each web project included no more than 3 revisions and when she landed her first client, she worked an extra 8 hours on the site because the client asked for revisions constantly and she felt like she couldn’t say no.

That set Lisa’s income back considerably because since she charged a flat fee for the project, she couldn’t use those 8 lost hours toward another paying project. After that experience, Lisa applied her hard lesson and spent a great deal of time crafting a thorough set of terms that has helped her manage demanding clients.

In the case you’re missing something important from your terms and conditions like Lisa – or haven’t crafted any terms at all – here is a list of items to include:

Ownership of work

• You may want to include terms around ownership of the work you produce to ensure it’s crystal clear for your clients. For example, you could allow ownership of the website design and graphics to a client, but retain ownership of the coding work that went into the site.

Additional services

• You’ve likely sent your client a proposal that details what is included in the project you’re delivering to them. However you may want to outline additional services or fees and costs associated with each so they aren’t running you ragged, like Lisa’s first client. Examples could be multiple revisions, specialized graphics or additional website features such as a shopping cart.

Delivery conditions

• You’ve likely told your client how long you estimate the project will take you – but you might want to be mindful about including delivery conditions to protect you from penalties in case the project runs late.

Privacy

• It’s unlikely you share the details about your clients with third parties, but still consider stating that, along with any other privacy terms, to make your clients feel secure working with your company.

Equipment

• Some providers will include standard equipment, but charge extra for anything beyond that. For example, if you need to rent a specialized computer for someone with high definition design needs, you would let them know in your equipment terms.

Travel time and expenses

• Some providers will include minimal travel time and expenses in their rates. For example, a 20-minute car ride might be included, but a 2-hour trek is additional. If train, bus, taxi, limo or airtravel is required, you may want to put restrictions on what type or level of travel is acceptable, e.g., direct flights only, business class (good luck!).

Meals

• If you are going to be designing for a company in-house and meals are provided, you may want to stipulate any dietary restrictions here so you won’t starve if you have food allergies.

Accommodations

• Generally, you’ll charge this to your client as an expense. But you may want to stipulate the type of accommodation so you don’t end up at a fleabag motel.

Payment

• Ensure you have great payment terms so that clients understand how soon they need to pay you, and any penalties that apply should they take their sweet ol’ time.

Other Fees

• If fees, such as location fees, rental fees and/or permits are required, who is paying for them?

Web design terms and Conditions

General

EtonDigital will carry out work only where an agreement is provided either by email, telephone, mail or fax. EtonDigital will carry out work only for clients who are 18 years of age or above. An ‘order’ is deemed to be a written or verbal contract between EtonDigital and the client, this includes telephone and email agreements.

Website Design

Whilst every endeavor will be made to ensure that the website and any scripts or programs are free of errors, EtonDigital cannot accept responsibility for any losses incurred due to malfunction, the website or any part of it.

The website, graphics and any programming code remain the property of EtonDigital until all outstanding accounts are paid in full.

Any scripts, cgi applications, php scripts, or software (unless specifically agreed) written by EtonDigital remain the copyright of EtonDigital and may only be commercially reproduced or resold with the permission of EtonDigital.

EtonDigital cannot take responsibility for any copyright infringements caused by materials submitted by the client. We reserve the right to refuse any material of a copyrighted nature unless adequate proof is given of permission to use such material.

Any additions to the brief will be carried out at the discretion of EtonDigital and where no charge is made by EtonDigital for such additions, EtonDigital accept no responsibility to ensure such additions are error free and reserve the right to charge an according amount for any correction to these or further additions.

The client agrees to make available as soon as is reasonably possible to EtonDigital all materials required to complete the site to the agreed standard and within the set deadline.

EtonDigital will not be liable for costs incurred, compensation or loss of earnings due to the failure to meet agreed deadlines.

EtonDigital will not be liable or become involved in any disputes between the site owner and their clients and cannot be held responsible for any wrongdoing on the part of a site owner.

EtonDigital will not be liable for any costs incurred, compensation or loss of earnings due to the work carried out on behalf of the client or any of the clients appointed agents.

EtonDigital will not be liable for any costs incurred, compensation or loss of earnings due to the unavailability of the site, its servers, software or any material provided by its agents.

A deposit of 50% is required with any project before any design work will be carried out.

Once a website has been designed and completed the final balance of payment is then due in accordance with our payment terms. There are no exceptions to this, i.e If the client decides they no longer want the site, as they have commissioned the work and paid a deposit they are still obliged to pay for the work that has been done. Non payment will result in legal action being taken if necessary.

Database, Application and E-Commerce Development

EtonDigital cannot take responsibility for any losses incurred by the use of any software created for the client. Whilst every care has been taken to ensure products are problem free and accurate, the ultimate responsibility lies with the client in ensuring that all software is functioning correctly before use.

Any scripts, cgi applications or software (unless specifically agreed) written by EtonDigital remain the copyright of EtonDigital and may only be commercially reproduced or resold with the permission of EtonDigital.

Where applications or sites are developed on servers not recommended by EtonDigital, the client is expected to provide or seek any information,additional software,support or co-operation pertaining to the server required in order for the application to be correctly developed. Where large applications are to be developed, it is the clients responsibility to provide a suitable testing environment which is identical to the final production environment.

The client is expected to test fully any application or programming relating to a site developed by EtonDigital before being made generally available for use. Where “bugs”, errors or other issues are found after the site is live, EtonDigital will endeavor (but is not obliged to) to correct these issues to meet the standards of function outlined in the brief.

Website Hosting

We offer limited hosting services by buying server space from Hetzner Online AG. They have great customer and technical support and service guarantee for an annual average of 99% network availability for their infrastructure.
Should you require any additional information, please refer to the Hetzner’s own websites for their terms and conditions.

Data Transfer Limits

Our monthly data transfer limit is 1GB per Month, if data transfer exceeds this limit it will be charged at £0.01 per MB.

Whilst EtonDigital recommends hosting companies to host websites, no guarantees can be made as to the availability or interruption of this service by EtonDigital cannot accept liability for losses caused by the unavailability, malfunction or interruption of this service, or for loss of turnover, sales, revenue, profits or indirect, consequential or special loss.

Hosting Payment Policy & Billing Procedures

All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. We accept payments via Check, Money Order, Online Check (preferred), Credit Card, PayPal, and Western Union. Setup fees are charged for all new accounts that are paid on a monthly basis and major account changes and are non-refundable. All pricing is guaranteed for the term of pre-payment. Eton Digital Limited reserves the right to change prices at any time. Payment is due each anniversary month or period following the date the account was established. If 10 days have passed and payment has not been posted, the account will be suspended until further notice. The customer is responsible for all money owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that the customer notifies Eton Digital Limited to request termination of services.

Payment of Accounts

A deposit is required from any new client before any work is carried out. It is the EtonDigital policy that any outstanding accounts for work carried out by EtonDigital or its affiliates are required to be paid in full, no later than 30 days from the date of the invoice unless by prior arrangement with EtonDigital.

Once a deposit is paid and work completed you are obliged to pay the balance of payment in full. We will contact clients via email and telephone to remind them of such payments if they are not received when due.

If accounts are not settled or EtonDigital have not been contacted regarding the delay, access to the related website may be denied and web pages removed, we will then pass such cases to the Small Claims Court to pursue payment, non payment can result in county court judgements (ccj’s) being added to the clients credit rating.

Following consistent non payment of an invoice our Solicitors will contact the client in question, with a view to taking the matter further and if need be to seek payment through legal procedures, and if necessary court summons.

Passing of Rights

Once all amounts due to us from you are paid and cleared you are assigned the rights to use, as applicable, the products and services, including, the web site which includes the text, graphics, animation, audio components and digital components contained within the finished web site, in accordance with these terms and conditions, the Project Agreement and any applicable agreement, terms or licence but no rights of ownership are conveyed unless specifically stated in the Project Contract.

No such rights as described in above will pass until all amounts due to us from you are paid. This means that we will have a lien over any service, products, data or information. If you have not paid the invoice in full within 2 months from the date of the invoice you agree that you will forfeit your rights.

The rights to photographs, graphics and any third party items such as source code, always remain the property of their respective owners.

Unless you have our specific written agreement in the Project Contract, all products, including Content Management Systems, interfaces, navigational devices, menus, menu structures or arrangements, icons, help, all operational instructions, scripts, cgi applications, software, programming/source code, and all other components of any source or object computer code that comprises the Website, all literal and non-literal expressions of ideas that operate, cause, create, direct, manipulate, access, or otherwise affect the Content and design elements used or developed and all software, and our products and results of our services remain our property and we retain full ownership rights and all intellectual property rights. You specifically agree not do anything that may in any way infringe upon or undermine our rights, title, or interest in the Website or our products and services. This includes, but is not limited to, any sale, transfer or gift of the whole or of any part of any item, data or anything whatsoever that we own. You fully understand that we may reproduce, reuse, develop and use in any other way we choose, anything within our ownership

Complaints Procedure

Informal procedure

Anyone who experiences a problem with their web service provided by EtonDigital should raise the matter directly using our online contact form to do so, giving sufficient information to locate the material (such as an url) and clearly outlining the grounds for complaint.

EtonDigital will approach the individual responsible for the material in question with a view to resolving the matter to the satisfaction of the complainant.

Formal complaints procedure

The formal complaints procedure should only be used where the complainant feels that the nature of the complaint is too serious to be dealt with informally, or where a satisfactory conclusion has not been reached after following the informal procedure.

A formal complaint should be made in writing to EtonDigital, who will acknowledge receipt and ensure that the matter is looked into as soon as possible.

An initial response to any complaint can be expected within seven days of its receipt; a full and considered response to the complaint should be completed within 30 days and any subsequent remedy implemented with the minimum of delay.

Web design Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

1. STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS

These are the standard terms and conditions for Website Design and Development and apply to all contracts and all work undertaken by Webilicious ® for its clients.

2. OUR FEES AND DEPOSITS

A 50% deposit of the total fee payable under our proposal is due immediately upon you instructing us to proceed with the website design and development work. The remaining 50% shall become due when the work is completed to your reasonable satisfaction but subject to the terms of the “approval of work” and “rejected work” clauses. We reserve the right not to commence any work until the deposit has been paid in full.

The 50% deposit is only refundable if we have not fulfilled our obligations to deliver the work required under the agreement. The deposit is not refundable if the development work has been started and you terminate the contract through no fault of ours.

3. SUPPLY OF MATERIALS

You must supply all materials and information required by us to complete the work in accordance with any agreed specification. Such materials may include, but are not limited to, photographs, written copy, logos and other printed material. Where there is any delay in supplying these materials to us which leads to a delay in the completion of work, we have the right to extend any previously agreed deadlines by a reasonable amount.

Where you fail to supply materials, and that prevents the progress of the work, we have the right to invoice you for any part or parts of the work already completed.

4. VARIATIONS

We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to make revisions to the design. However, we have the right to limit the number of design proposals to a reasonable amount and may charge for additional designs if you make a change to the original design specification.

Our website development phase is flexible and allows certain variations to the original specification. However any major deviation from the specification will be charged at the rate of $100.00 per hour.

5. PROJECT DELAYS AND CLIENT LIABILITY

Any time frames or estimates that we give are contingent upon your full co-operation and complete and final content in photography for the work pages. During development there is a certain amount of feedback required in order to progress to subsequent phases. It is required that a single point of contact be appointed from your side and be made available on a daily basis in order to expedite the feedback process.

6. APPROVAL OF WORK

On completion of the work you will be notified and have the opportunity to review it. You must notify us in writing of any unsatisfactory points within 7 days of such notification. Any of the work which has not been reported in writing to us as unsatisfactory within the 7-day review period will be deemed to have been approved. Once approved, or deemed approved, work cannot subsequently be rejected and the contract will be deemed to have been completed and the 50% balance of the project price will become due.

7. REJECTED WORK

If you reject any of our work within the 7-day review period, or not approve subsequent work performed by us to remedy any points recorded as being unsatisfactory, and we, acting reasonably, consider that you have been unreasonable in any rejection of the work, we can elect to treat this contract as at an end and take measures to recover payment for the completed work.

8. PAYMENT

Upon completion of the 7-day review period, we will invoice you for the 50% balance of the project.

9. WARRANTY BY YOU AS TO OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

You must obtain all necessary permissions and authorities in respect of the use of all copy, graphic images, registered company logos, names and trade marks, or any other material that you supply to us to include in your website or web applications.

You must indemnify us and hold us harmless from any claims or legal actions related to the content of your website.

10. LICENSING

Once you have paid us in full for our work we grant to you a license to use the website and its related software and contents for the life of the website.

11. SEARCH ENGINES

We do not guarantee any specific position in search engine results for your website. We perform basic search engine optimisation according to current best practice.

12. CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS

We shall not be liable for any loss or damage which you may suffer which is in any way attributable to any delay in performance or completion of our contract, however that delay arises.

13. DISCLAIMER

To the full extent permitted by law, all terms, conditions, warranties, undertakings, inducements or representations whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise (other than the express provisions of these terms and conditions) relating in any way to the services we provide to you are excluded. Without limiting the above, to the extent permitted by law, any liability of Webilicious ® under any term, condition, warranty or representation that by law cannot be excluded is, where permitted by law, limited at our option to the replacement, re-repair or re-supply of the services or the payment of the cost of the services that we were contracted to perform.

14. SUBCONTRACTING

We reserve the right to subcontract any services that we have agreed to perform for you as we see fit.

15. NON-DISCLOSURE

We (and any subcontractors we engage) agree that we will not at any time disclose any of your confidential information to any third party.

16. ADDITIONAL EXPENSES

You agree to reimburse us for any requested expenses which do not form part of our proposal including but not limited to the purchase of templates, third party software, stock photographs, fonts, domain name registration, web hosting or comparable expenses.

17. BACKUPS

You are responsible for maintaining your own backups with respect to your website and we will not be liable for restoring any client data or client websites except to the extent that such data loss arises out of a negligent act or omission by us.

18. OWNERSHIP OF DOMAIN NAMES AND WEB HOSTING

We will supply to you account credentials for domain name registration and/or web hosting that we purchased on your behalf when you reimburse us for any expenses that we have incurred.

19. GOVERNING LAW

The agreement constituted by these terms and conditions and any proposal will be construed according to and is governed by the laws of Tasmania. You and Webilicious ® submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in and of Tasmania in relation to any dispute arising under these terms and conditions or in relation to any services we perform for you.

20. CROSS BROWSER COMPATIBILITY

By using current versions of well supported content management systems such as “Joomla”, we endeavour to ensure that the web sites we create are compatible with all current modern web browsers such as the most recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Third party extensions, where used, may not have the same level of support for all browsers. Where appropriate we will substitute alternative extensions or implement other solutions, on a best effort basis, where any incompatibilities are found.

21. E-COMMERCE

You are responsible for complying with all relevant laws relating to e-commerce, and to the full extent permitted by law will hold harmless, protect, and defend and indemnify Webilicious ® and its subcontractors from any claim, penalty, tax, tariff loss or damage arising from your or your clients’ use of Internet electronic commerce.

Website Development Work Breakdown Structure

1.1. Project Management

1.2. Requirements

1.2.1. Business

1.2.1.1. Domain Name

1.2.1.2. Marketing

1.2.1.3. Process

1.2.1.3.1. Customer Ordering

1.2.1.3.2. eCommerce

1.2.1.3.3. Order Fulfillment

1.2.1.3.4. Existing Systems Integration

1.2.1.3.4.1. Shipping

1.2.1.3.4.2. Financial

1.2.1.3.4.3. Inventory

1.2.1.3.4.4. Banking

1.2.1.3.4.5. CRM

1.2.1.4. Regulatory

1.2.1.5. Legal

1.2.1.6. Operations Management / Site Maintenance

1.2.2. Technical

1.2.2.1. Security

1.2.2.2. Network

1.2.2.2.1. Hosting

1.2.2.2.2. Platform

1.2.3. Web User Interface

1.2.3.1. Unrestricted Content

1.2.3.2. Restricted Content

1.2.3.3. eCommerce Capabilities

1.2.4. Requirements Documentation (RFP)

1.3. Vendor Selection

1.3.1. Initial Vendor / Product Research

1.3.2. RFP Review Process

1.3.2.1. Define RFP Selection Committee

1.3.2.2. Define Vendor Selection / RFP Weighting Criteria

1.3.2.3. Vendor Open Q&A Sessions

1.3.2.4. Vendor Presentations

1.3.2.5. Vendor Selection

1.3.3. Vendor Contract

1.3.3.1. Detailed Vendor Scope Statement

1.3.3.1.1. Functional Specifications

1.3.3.1.2. Technical Specifications

1.4. Website Development

1.4.1. Create Code Design Document

1.4.1.1. Release Schedule

1.4.2. Code Control System

1.4.3. Development Environment

1.4.4. User Interface Design

1.4.5. Database Model

1.4.6. Code Generation

1.4.6.1. Release Testing

1.4.6.2. Bug Fixes

1.4.7. Content

1.4.7.1. User / Legal Agreements

1.4.7.2. Product Catalog

1.4.7.2.1. Descriptions

1.4.7.2.2. Images

1.5. Website Testing

1.5.1. Test Environment Setup

1.5.2. Test Plan

1.5.3. UAT

1.5.4. Results Reporting

1.6. Website Deployment

1.6.1. Hosting Agreement

1.6.2. Application Integration

1.6.3. Operations Switch Over

1.6.4. Documentation

1.6.4.1. End User Documentation

1.6.4.2. Application Administration Documentation

1.6.4.3. System Administrator Documentation

1.6.4.4. Disaster Recovery

Web Apps Testing Methodologies

Different Web Apps Testing Methodologies and Tools

In today’s fiercely competitive and rapidly changing web-based scenarios, it has become
 critical to the businesses and organizations to test their web-based applications thoroughly
 before they plan to launch their website. By performing rigorous testing of their web application,
 organizations can get an assurance that their applications will work smoothly and will be easily
 accepted by the end-users.

You can use a wide range of testing methodologies or techniques when it comes to test the web
 apps for their quality and function. Such testing techniques not only test web application quality,
 but also test for the web application’s browser compatibility, load testing, scalability testing, stress
 testing and more. As RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) are introducing a huge shift in a way we deliver
 and use web-based applications, one must 
test the web application.

In this post, we’re going to discuss a few basic testing methodologies for testing web apps. Also

Here are a few of the basic testing techniques for web applications:

1. Functionality Testing
The main goal of functional testing is to make sure that all the functions within a web
 app are working smoothly without any technical glitches. In a web application, functional 
testing could cover different things like whether all the links are working properly or not,
 testing forms in all the pages, testing cookies, validating HTML or CSS, testing database for
 the security and so on.
 
One should also ensure that test cases cover all the boundary conditions that need to be tested.
 Also, invalid inputs should give an appropriate error message.

2. Usability Testing
When it comes to make the application user-friendly and effective, its user interface should 
comply with the standards. It is important that you follow all the global conventions and web
 standards while developing a web application. Usability testing is suitable for the applications
 that are intended to streamline the manual process.
 
However, one should also keep in mind certain important aspects like proper navigation, site 
map, avoid using over-crowded content and more while approaching for the usability testing.
 
3. Interface Testing
One of the most important interfaces within a web application are web server and application
 server interface and database server interface. Interface testing will ensure that all the individual
 components within a web application are connected appropriately. One should check whether the
 interaction between these servers are executed properly or not with the help of this testing
 method.

4. Compatibility Testing
Compatibility of your web application is one of the most crucial things you should consider while
 testing the application. Compatibility testing will check your website or web application for
 browser compatibility, operating system compatibility, mobile browsing and printing options.

5. Performance Testing
Performance testing will help you determine the performance of your web application under
 various scenarios. Performance testing usually involves stress testing, scalability testing and
 load testing. In this testing method, website is usually tested for its functionality on different
 operating system, hardware platforms and more.

6. Security Testing
This testing method is one of the most important ones for your web application as if data 
leaks or modifications are tolerable or not. It usually involves various things like testing the
 CAPTCHA for automates scripts logins, testing SSL for security measures, whether it is possible
 to access web directories or files directly or not and so on.

These are all the major web application testing methodologies or techniques you can use. 
However, there are plenty of web applications testing tools available in the market. 

Here’s the list of a few of the most popular testing tools you can use to test your web
 application:

1. TestingWhiz: TestingWhiz is rapidly becoming popular among the testers and QA
 teams to test a wide range of applications. It is an intuitive and affordable solution, which
 based on FAST® automation engine. It brings wide range of features like effortless and
 intelligent recording techniques like keyword-driven testing, data driven testing, Excel inputs, 
object recorder and Java scripting to offer powerful test automation solutions like automated
 regression testing, cross browser testing, image comparison and language translation.

2. Dojo Testing: DOH (Dojo Objective Harness) brings both command line and browser
 support for the testers. It is one of the most flexible and easy to use web application testing
 tools available in the market.

3. LinkTiger: This amazing tool is used by the professionals to test and identify the broken
 links within a website or web application. With the help of user-friendly dashboard, you can
 easily leverage from clear and well-organized reports with pie charts and graphs showing status
 of all the broken links on your site.

4. FlexMonkey: It is nothing but an Adobe AIR application that is used generally to test Flex
 and AIR-based applications in a hassle-free way. It covers all the facets of test script writing,
 running and reporting to achieve the desired level of application test coverage.

Well, these are just a few major tools you can use to test your web applications, but there
 are hundreds of other tools you can google over the web as per your needs. Have you ever
 tried any of these tools? Share your experiences in the comments…!

- See more at: http://blog.testing-whiz.com/2013/12/different-web-apps-testing.html#sthash.heRX0Xgc.dpuf

Web Testing

Web Testing: Complete guide on testing web applications

In my previous post I have outlined points to be considered while testing web applications. Here we will see somemore details on web application testing with web testing test cases. Let me tell you one thing that I always like to share practical knowledge, which can be useful to users in their career life. This is a quite long article so sit back and get relaxed to get most out of it.

Let’s have first web testing checklist.
1) Functionality Testing
2) Usability testing
3) Interface testing
4) Compatibility testing
5) Performance testing
6) Security testing

1) Functionality Testing:

Test for – all the links in web pages, database connection, forms used in the web pages for submitting or getting information from user, Cookie testing.

Check all the links:

• Test the outgoing links from all the pages from specific domain under test.
• Test all internal links.
• Test links jumping on the same pages.
• Test links used to send the email to admin or other users from web pages.
• Test to check if there are any orphan pages.
• Lastly in link checking, check for broken links in all above-mentioned links.

Test forms in all pages:
Forms are the integral part of any web site. Forms are used to get information from users and to keep interaction with them. So what should be checked on these forms?

• First check all the validations on each field.
• Check for the default values of fields.
• Wrong inputs to the fields in the forms.
• Options to create forms if any, form delete, view or modify the forms.

Let’s take example of the search engine project currently I am working on, In this project we have advertiser and affiliate signup steps. Each sign up step is different but dependent on other steps. So sign up flow should get executed correctly. There are different field validations like email Ids, User financial info validations. All these validations should get checked in manual or automated web testing.

Cookies testing:
Cookies are small files stored on user machine. These are basically used to maintain the session mainly login sessions. Test the application by enabling or disabling the cookies in your browser options. Test if the cookies are encrypted before writing to user machine. If you are testing the session cookies (i.e. cookies expire after the sessions ends) check for login sessions and user stats after session end. Check effect on application security by deleting the cookies. (I will soon write separate article on cookie testing)

Validate your HTML/CSS:
If you are optimizing your site for Search engines then HTML/CSS validation is very important. Mainly validate the site for HTML syntax errors. Check if site is crawlable to different search engines.

Database testing:
Data consistency is very important in web application. Check for data integrity and errors while you edit, delete, modify the forms or do any DB related functionality.
Check if all the database queries are executing correctly, data is retrieved correctly and also updated correctly. More on database testing could be load on DB, we will address this in web load or performance testing below.

2) Usability Testing:

Test for navigation:
Navigation means how the user surfs the web pages, different controls like buttons, boxes or how user using the links on the pages to surf different pages.
Usability testing includes:
Web site should be easy to use. Instructions should be provided clearly. Check if the provided instructions are correct means whether they satisfy purpose.
Main menu should be provided on each page. It should be consistent.

Content checking: 
Content should be logical and easy to understand. Check for spelling errors. Use of dark colors annoys users and should not be used in site theme. You can follow some standards that are used for web page and content building. These are common accepted standards like as I mentioned above about annoying colors, fonts, frames etc.
Content should be meaningful. All the anchor text links should be working properly. Images should be placed properly with proper sizes.
These are some basic standards that should be followed in web development. Your task is to validate all for UI testing

Other user information for user help:
Like search option, sitemap, help files etc. Sitemap should be present with all the links in web sites with proper tree view of navigation. Check for all links on the sitemap.
“Search in the site” option will help users to find content pages they are looking for easily and quickly. These are all optional items and if present should be validated.

3) Interface Testing:
The main interfaces are:
Web server and application server interface
Application server and Database server interface.

Check if all the interactions between these servers are executed properly. Errors are handled properly. If database or web server returns any error message for any query by application server then application server should catch and display these error messages appropriately to users. Check what happens if user interrupts any transaction in-between? Check what happens if connection to web server is reset in between?

4) Compatibility Testing:
Compatibility of your web site is very important testing aspect. See which compatibility test to be executed:

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• Browser compatibility
• Operating system compatibility
• Mobile browsing
• Printing options

Browser compatibility:
In my web-testing career I have experienced this as most influencing part on web site testing.
Some applications are very dependent on browsers. Different browsers have different configurations and settings that your web page should be compatible with. Your web site coding should be cross browser platform compatible. If you are using java scripts or AJAX calls for UI functionality, performing security checks or validations then give more stress on browser compatibility testing of your web application.
Test web application on different browsers like Internet explorer, Firefox, Netscape navigator, AOL, Safari, Opera browsers with different versions.

OS compatibility:
Some functionality in your web application is may not be compatible with all operating systems. All new technologies used in web development like graphics designs, interface calls like different API’s may not be available in all Operating Systems.
Test your web application on different operating systems like Windows, Unix, MAC, Linux, Solaris with different OS flavors.

Mobile browsing:
This is new technology age. So in future Mobile browsing will rock. Test your web pages on mobile browsers. Compatibility issues may be there on mobile.

Printing options:
If you are giving page-printing options then make sure fonts, page alignment, page graphics getting printed properly. Pages should be fit to paper size or as per the size mentioned in printing option.

5) Performance testing:
Web application should sustain to heavy load. Web performance testing should include:
Web Load Testing
Web Stress Testing

Test application performance on different internet connection speed.
In web load testing test if many users are accessing or requesting the same page. Can system sustain in peak load times? Site should handle many simultaneous user requests, large input data from users, Simultaneous connection to DB, heavy load on specific pages etc.

Stress testing: Generally stress means stretching the system beyond its specification limits. Web stress testing is performed to break the site by giving stress and checked how system reacts to stress and how system recovers from crashes.
Stress is generally given on input fields, login and sign up areas.

In web performance testing web site functionality on different operating systems, different hardware platforms is checked for software, hardware memory leakage errors,

6) Security Testing:

Following are some test cases for web security testing:

• Test by pasting internal url directly into browser address bar without login. Internal pages should not open.
• If you are logged in using username and password and browsing internal pages then try changing url options directly. I.e. If you are checking some publisher site statistics with publisher site ID= 123. Try directly changing the url site ID parameter to different site ID which is not related to logged in user. Access should denied for this user to view others stats.
• Try some invalid inputs in input fields like login username, password, input text boxes. Check the system reaction on all invalid inputs.
• Web directories or files should not be accessible directly unless given download option.
• Test the CAPTCHA for automates scripts logins.
• Test if SSL is used for security measures. If used proper message should get displayed when user switch from non-secure http:// pages to secure https:// pages and vice versa.
• All transactions, error messages, security breach attempts should get logged in log files somewhere on web server.

I think I have addressed all major web testing methods. I have worked for around 2 years out of my testing career on web testing. There are some experts who have spent their whole career life on web testing. If I missed out addressing some important web testing aspect then let me know in comments below. I will keep on updating the article for latest testing information.