Go over before publishing

“Go over” is a short guide to what a website like yours usually has before it goes online, legal and practical. Your assistant brings what is usual where your business or activity is.

It is a guide, never a check. Everything can be left aside, and you can publish at any time: with the go-over done, half done or never opened.

Where you find it

When the first version is finished: “Your website has its first version. Whenever you want, we go over what a website like yours usually has before publishing.” Press “Go over my website”.
“Go over”, beside “Publish” at the top right, until you have gone over your website once. The “Publish” tab has its own, so the top right shows neither there.
The first time you press “Publish” on a new website: “Before publishing, shall I help you go over what a website like yours usually has?” Press “Yes” to go over it, or “Publish now” to publish as always. On that website, it is not asked again.
Always, in the “Publish” tab, below its “Publish” button, even on a website you never published. Until you have gone over it once, it says “Shall we go over it first?”.

Each one opens your website’s go-over. Your assistant works on it only when you open it, on your own subscription.

What it asks

Your assistant reads your website first. Then it asks, in one card, only what it cannot tell. What it can tell, it proposes for you to confirm:

where your business or activity is (you can add several countries);
what it is: a person or professional, a business with premises, a shop elsewhere, an association, an event or something else;
what your website does: only informs, a contact form, a newsletter, bookings or appointments, shows products or prices, links to a shop elsewhere, customer reviews;
something sensitive, only when your website hints at it: food, health, children, alcohol or money.

Each question has a box for your own answer. It never asks for company details, such as a tax number.

What it gives back

A short list in three groups:

“Usual in your country”
“To be found and contacted”
“May suit you”

Each point has a title and one sentence of why. What your website already has shows “Done”. When there are more than eight points, six are shown and the rest are one press away.

“Do it” opens a new task with the request already written. Read it, change it if you like, and send it.
“I don’t need it” removes that point from this website for good.
“Go over again” looks at your website as it is now. What you did shows done, what you removed stays away, and something that is no longer true comes back.

Under the list there is always the same line: “These are general recommendations, not legal advice. When in doubt, ask a professional in your country.”

The go-over changes nothing on your website by itself. Each point is done in its own task, when you press “Do it”.

When your website starts doing something new

After you have gone over your website once, a publish may add something your website does: a contact form, a newsletter, registrations, bookings, a link to payments or to a shop, or another language. Then the publish window says so once, for example “Your website now collects sign-ups” and “1 new suggestion in Go over”.

“Go over”, in the “Publish” tab, shows how many until you open it. Opening it goes over your website again. Nothing runs by itself.

Where it is kept

Your answers and the list are kept with your website’s sources. They travel with your website and its versions, also to another computer, and your assistant keeps your answers in mind while it works on your website.

They are never published: nobody can see them on the internet.