10 things a web designer should do!

 
1. Develop and set-up a 404 error page
2. Make sure there is no DNS errors
3. Set-up email accounts
4. Set-up email forwarding and/or aliases
5. Proper use of Meta tags & Meta data
6. Install Statistics logs (i.e., hit counter)
7. Add a favicon (or at least suggest it)
8. Make all site navigation obvious to the causal user
9. Validate code
10. Hide email addresses from spammer-bots/crawlers