Checklists have tamed complexity in industries as diverse as air travel and medicine, enshrining lessons learned from mistakes to dramatically reduce accidents and save millions of lives.

We’ll explore some of the history of how checklists have been applied in other industries, then take a concrete look at practical ways to apply them to website development and publishing.

Checklists can help us write and publish quality content with more consistency, and minimize bugs introduced while building and updating websites and web applications.