Testing the site before going live

- [Instructor] If you've been … following along with this course since the beginning, … you should now have a fully functional … small business site set up on your web host. … Now before you tell the world about your site, … there's a couple of things you want to do first. … I call this the prelaunch checklist. … For starters, you want to click through every single page … of your site, and every link that you find, … just to make sure that it works as expected. … This is especially important if you've changed your domain … at any point in the development process. … For instance, maybe you started developing at a staging URL … provided by your web host, … and then you switched it over to your company's domain. … That has the potential to mess up your links, … so you want to be sure and check them. … This could take some time, … but it's much better to spend that time upfront … than to get an email from someone after launch … letting you know that you've got 404 errors … and broken links. …