Chapter 18. Testing Your Website

By now, you have probably spent hours on your website. You have let your creative juices flow, and now you can’t wait to share the site with someone. So, you proudly send your uniform resource locator (URL) to a friend, who looks at the website and comments on only the broken links and missing images. You were expecting her to say how cool your work was, but instead, she only noticed the mistakes. This is definitely not the reaction you wanted. To stop this from happening, you need to test your website before showing it to other people.

When you test your website, you simply go over the work you have done and make ...

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