Here is a quick reference for some of the more common things to remember.

DWC Font Standards

• Avoid center justification of large pages

• Avoid too many CAPITALS

• Avoid too much bold text

• Avoid too much italic text

• Leave underlining for hyperlinks (use horizontal bars or tables if you need a divider)

Guidelines on Page Content

Audience

• Define your audience.

• Who will be using your pages?

Purposes

• Are you presenting information to an interested audience?

• What kind of page are you publishing:

• Personal

• Academic writing

• Collection of links

• Informational

• Collection of images

• Are you providing a collection of links?

• State your intent clearly.

Links

• Choose meaningful words or phrases for links.

• Choose an appropriate length for the link text.

• Choose your links so they support your sentence and concept structure.

Page Length

• Try not to make the page longer than the window.

• If your pages present text that people will want to read at length, it's all right to use longer, scrolling pages.

Navigation

• Put a title header on each page.

• Choose a page title that accurately summarizes the content of the page.

Security

• Don't publish "registered" information!

• Think before posting contact information such as your email address. Only include it where necessary.

• Think twice about publishing "need to know" sorts of documents.

Quality

• Test every link.

• Keep your pages up-to-date.

• Check your spelling and grammar.

Netiquette

• Don't publish copyrighted material without the permission of the owner.

• Take care in using trademarks.

• Don't publish links to someone else's pages unless you know that they want that exposure.

Content

• Put as much content towards the top of a hierarchy as is possible.

• Pare down your text.

• Provide "context" links to satisfy a range of audience needs.

• Don't assume that all your readers will use the same browser features and defaults as you do.