Setting up a staging site
When modifying your website or experimenting with new features, you shouldn't be working on your live website. If something goes wrong, your website could break which will cut off all your traffic while you scramble to get it up and running again.
Instead, you should always work on a duplicate version of your website set up in a separate staging environment. Any changes you make in this staging environment will not effect your live site, and when you're ready, you can push this staging website over to the live environment without interrupting your internet presence.
Social Login for your website
86% of users are inconvenienced by having to create new accounts on websites, so if you're creating a membership website, you should simplify the login process with social login options.
Social logins allow users to sign up to a new service almost instantly, often with just a single click, rather than having to go through the arduous process of proving their email, a new password and then verifying that email etc.
And a simplified process = increased conversion.
You should adopt this as habitual UX practice, always aim to simplify every process to a minimal number of steps.
Installing an SSL certificate
An SSL (secure socket layers) certificate encrypts all of the information submitted on a website, this includes contact forms, order forms and credit card data.
Because of their respectful handling of user data, Google gives precedence to websites with SSL certificates, so if you want to rank well in Google you must get one.
Setting up and configuring website backups / security firewalls
To prevent a security breach from compromising your data and nullifying the hard work you put into making your website, you must protect yourself from cyberattacks.
Keeping your web admin passwords secure
It doesn't matter how sophisticated your web security solution is, if your login credentials are weak, it's useless. In fact, according to the 2019 Data Breach Information Report , 80% of security breaches were a result of weak passwords.
To make your web admin portal difficult to hack, your password should follow the following convention:
Have at least 12 characters
Include numbers
Include letters (upper and lower case)
Coming up with a password that meets the above criteria isn't that difficult, the real difficulty lies in actually remembering it!
There's a trick to coming up with a difficult password you will actually remember. Start by thinking of a short fact about your life that naturally includes words, numbers and symbols. The more specific you get, the better.
Setting up a business email account
It's important for you to also create a business email account to represent your business in a prestigious manner.
Next time, we look at the layout or wireframing of your website. Before you start building it out, it's crucial to have a plan, what information to include, which pages do you need and how people will navigate your website.
Stay tuned!
0 comments