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Launch Planning

As you approach completion of the content on your site, it's time to begin thinking about setting a date for launch. These resources are designed to help you move through the launch process smoothly.

To help organize launches and reduce confusion and errors, Web Strategies is scheduling launch days regularly every other Tuesday. To find out what launch day will work for your site, use the Launch Date Calculator below.

Checklist for Launch Request

  • Does your site meet the Visual Identity Guidelines?
  • Are there any blank pages still on your site?
  • Have your stakeholders had a chance to review all content?
  • Are there any typos or grammatical problems?
  • Are all your graphics created and uploaded?
  • Have you identified any URLs that need to be transferred to your new site (such as anything in print or linked from another website?)
  • Are there any broken links on the site?
  • Are there any pages that are slow to load?

Launch Date Calculator

Request for Launch Submitted:
Launch Day:

Behind the Scenes in Web Strategies

When you hand off your site for review, it becomes the responsibility of Web Strategies to go through steps for site launch. To understand more what is happening behind the scenes when you request a site launch, read through our steps below.

Three weeks before launch

  • Launch Request Submitted
  • Visual Identity Review begins
  • Content Review begins
  • Endeca Subsite request submitted

Two weeks before launch

If website passes Visual Identity Review and Content Review, an email goes out to the department that lets them know the site is going through code review and stress testing in development. If they don’t pass, then there is communication with the stakeholders and a new launch date is selected.

  • Visual Identity Review Ends
  • Content Review Ends
  • Code Review Begins
  • Stress Testing Begins
  • Set up user with Web Analytics

One week before launch

  • Code Review Ends
  • Content Review Ends
  • Request URL shortcut/vanity URL
  • Soft launch – add anonymous read/upload to production environment
  • Upload Endeca to production

Week of launch

  • Launch website
  • Block access to old site
  • Activate URL Rules/Block old rules
  • Log site in Web Strategies Database

One week after launch

Create archive of old site, then remove from server

Notify Web community/Outlook/Communicators group that there is a new site launch