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Launchlist is a beautiful tool for making sure your site is ready for launch
Design is an amazing thing; I mean, take a checklist. In itself, a checklist is nothing special. It's just a bunch of items which you can mark as done. You can make a checklist with a scrap of paper and an old pencil and it would work just fine.
But take that checklist and wrap it with Web 2.0 bells and whistles, awesome typography, Javascript animation, a color scheme that pops right out of the page, slick rounded lines and lots of common sense, and you've got Launchlist.
It's essentially just a bunch of items you need to make sure are in place before you launch your website. "HTML has passed validation", "Forms send to correct recipient" (should that not be "sent"?), etc. Simple stuff, common sense. You can send your checklist as an email to one recipient, too.
So no big news here, functionally. But I must admit I was simply smitten by the site's design; it is a great study in how design can add value and make common, ordinary things appear ever-so-sexy. The site made me want to use it. Very, very nice!
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Subscribe to commentsDan LarsonJul 16th 2010 2:35PM
"'Forms send to correct recipient' (should that not be 'sent'?)"
It's clumsily worded, but it's likely referring to HTML forms, checking to see that they send the results to the correct location / email address. This is to hopefully keep you from leaving your own email address in as the final destination for contact forms from when you were testing - a mistake I've made more than once...
OIK2Jul 18th 2010 7:41PM
Send would be used present tense to indicate it being an ongoing action. It sent when you tested it, it would still send now because you have not yet broken it, and it will continue to send because you threaten everyone around you with death if they cause it to stop sending to the correct recipient
Think about these sentences.. I run. I swim. Even if I am not running or swimming right now, I do on an ongoing basis.