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Guidelines for Webpage Creation

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Guidelines for Creating Web Pages:

A: No ads or endorsements of products, candidates

 

Minnesota Futurists is a non-profit organization and cannot endorse political candidates or push commercial products. That means no business logos. You can link to ads (commercial pages, that is).

 

B: Electronic Policy - Be sure you will be proud of what you do.

 

***Note the following are general rules lifted from CPSR web site.

 

C: With or without HTML

 

When you are in the edit view of a document, you can edit without using any html code. Just use the icons and drop-down list above the edit window to format your page. If at any point you want to write your own HTML tags, click on the box labeled "HTML" underneath the edit window.

D: Make a back-up, be sure to save

 

Copy what you are writing into a separate document, so if anything strange happens, you don't lose it. And make sure to click the "Save" button at the bottom of the Edit view page when you're done editing.

E: Copying text from Word

 

If you copy and paste from a Word document, you have to get rid of the Word formatting.

 

* First, open up Notepad and copy the Word text into a Notepad document (or web editor). Make sure there is a line of space between each paragraph.

* If there are quote, marks, apostrophes and/or long hyphens, before you enter any text to the web page either:

1. replace all the quotes and apostrophe marks in Notepad (they will become straight rather than curly);

2. OR in the web page editing area, change the "Format" from "HTML" to "Structured Text."

* Then copy the text from Notepad and paste it into the web page editing area.

 

We hope to eventually get a simpler process, but at least this will save you from having to remove Word formatting by hand.

F: Email addresses

 

To avoid unwanted spam email, we suggest that you not put "mail-to" tags such as ilovespam@mycollege.edu directly into the text. Instead try: nospam(a)mycollege.edu.

G: Graphics

 

Use as FEW as possible, unless they are very fast-loading -- i.e. no more than 10-15 k each. Even when they're under 15 k, try to have no more than 4 graphics per page. Anything more will make the page slow to download and discriminate against those folks with slow modems. Use text to describe an image (alt="WFS 2007 logo" or whatever)

H: Generic HTML

 

Do not use coding that can be best viewed only on Mozilla or whatever. Our pages ought to be readable for all browsers.

Make the page easy to read and decipher.

I: Blinking

 

Avoid blink tags and other unnecessary moving type.

J: Avoid counters

 

If you want a tally, put a very, very tiny one at the bottom of your main page, with just the numbers showing.

K: Get permission

 

Don't list a person's email address without permission or put up any articles without the author's permission. You can link to articles that are already on the web.

L: Your home page does not have to conform to these standards--

 

You can refer to your home page in the address/mailto at the bottom of a page.

M: Spelling, etc.

 

Have another person read over the copy/content information before the Web page is released for public consumption. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes reflect poorly on Minnesota Futurists and its members.

 

The use of HTML-helper applications and spell-checkers is HIGHLY recommended.

N: Break Up Large Pages

 

When the page starts to get big, break it up into smaller collections.

 

O: If you really have something of value to share use social networking :

via http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/social_explain.php

 

Use good judgment, and if in doubt, ask!

(See folks listed on WFS 2007 Project page)

 

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