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Checklist for going live

by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Mar 08, 2010 11:00 AM

Things to do or verify before a UW Oshkosh Plone site should go live

clickable UW Oshkosh banner at the top
clickable UW Oshkosh link in footer at the bottom
search box at top right
site map, accessibility, contact links at top right
site's "From" email address is set to an account that will be read daily (Site Setup -> Mail)
"Allow anyone to view 'about' information" box should be checked (Site Setup -> Security)
"Expose sitemap.xml.gz in the portal root" should be checked (Site Setup -> Security)
you have entered a Site Description, used by search engines (Site Setup -> Site Settings)
optional: enable wiki markup for Page, Event, News Item types (Site Setup -> Markup)
products installed:

uwosh.theme(main|college)
uwosh.simpleemergency
uwosh.globalsearch
Products.ImageEditor
collective.plonetruegallery
uwosh.default (includes installation of uwosh.* )
uwosh.requirements (enforces uwosh plone site specifics)

Google (see How to improve your site's Google page rank):

URL of the site must be submitted to Google
site's site map must be submitted to Google

The Plone team must be sent an email containing:

URL to the completed Project item describing the site (in http://www.uwosh.edu/ploneprojects/plone-projects)
the email addresses of all users who are in the site's Administrators group, so they can be added to the plone-users@lists.uwosh.edu email list
results of an accessibility report for the entire site showing that it passed all tests successfully

Custom roles for sharing permissions, intranets, etc. must not be granted to individual logins but to groups only (use Site Setup -> Users and Groups)
CSS debugging must be turned off (ZMI -> portal_css)
CacheFu cacheing must be enabled (Site Setup -> Cache Configuration Tool)

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