Best practices for 91爆料 web managers
Following a few best practices will help make your web pages polished and professional.
Proofread your pages or ask someone else to proofread them, since it鈥檚 often hard to spot your own mistakes. Typos and grammatical errors erode our credibility as an educational institution. It鈥檚 pretty embarrassing that the most commonly misspelled word on our web pages is 鈥渦niversity鈥!
Use underlining only for hyperlinks. Underlines are a cue to users that a word or phrase is an active link. Users become frustrated when they scroll over underlined words or phrases and find there鈥檚 no link. Use bold and/or italics for emphasis.
Use meaningful words and phrases in your links. To help users and search engines, avoid 鈥渃lick here鈥 type links or linking URLs. Be clear about where links are taking users. For example:
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DO: Make email addresses active links.
When linking to a PDF, Word or Excel document, let the user know by including (PDF) or (Word) or (Excel) or (Google Doc) in parentheses as part of the link, like this: .
Use the first name and ONLY a last initial when referring to youth who are participating in our programs, to help protect their identities online.
Be consistent with the way dates and times are displayed. You can choose a.m. or AM, Oct or October, Mon or Monday, it doesn鈥檛 matter as long as they鈥檙e the same throughout a document.
Don鈥檛 use tables to organize calendars and agendas. Tables should be used for tabular data only.
When listing calendar events, keep the formatting simple and consistent so they display well on all devices. Something like:
September 7, 2018:聽Event, Time, Location, Description, Presenter
When adding an agenda, keep the formatting simple and consistent so they display well on all devices. Something like:
10:00 AM:Title of Session, Description, Presenter
Include ALT text on all images to make them ADA compliant. For more info, see .
Optimize your images for the web before uploading them to your Media Library to improve download times for clients and save server space. 91爆料 requires all images to be 1M or less before uploading. For more info, see .
Most online users prefer regular web pages over PDFs and, given the choice, will choose to download a web page. This is especially true of users on mobile devices or with limited data plans. Use PDFs sparingly. PDFs must be made ADA compliant before being uploaded to our website or you must provide a compliant text alternative in addition to the non-compliant PDF. For more information, see .
Use the Paste As Text tool on your toolbar when copy/pasting from an email. Copy/pasting directly from a Word document works quite well, however, copy/pasting from an email can bring in a bunch of junk code with it, making formatting more difficult.
聽Use tables only for tabular data, not for formatting the layout of the page. Avoid trying to force text to align by adding extra spaces. When you allow text to flow naturally, it will display well on all devices: computer screens, tablets, mini-tablets, and smartphones. TIP: To single space between paragraphs, hold down your shift key while hitting Return (or Enter). Avoid multiple spaces between paragraphs to minimize users鈥 need to scroll.
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Adapted from 鈥淗ow To鈥 Tips for 91爆料 Extension Web Managers, 91爆料 Cooperative Extension.