Before making your site available to the public, it's important to test it thoroughly. The site should be tested by project members first, then by a larger audience within your municipality, and finally the public. Develop a formal plan to test the site's structure, content, presentation, and interface, and incorporate the test results before launching the site.

Generally, you test to find out if your site is organized and user-friendly. Some specific things to test for are: graphics appearing in the right places, correct and logical links, useful introductory information for content, reasonable response times for downloading graphics, adequate connection times, and operational security features. Testing isn't just a pre-launch activity. Updates and new pages need to be tested before being added to your site. You should also periodically check the links.