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Web Page Content Check List |
- If you're
editing existing content, download the "live"
or production version of a file or directory to your local drive
first. You can't assume your local copy is the latest version.
- If you're
adding new content, does it exist anywhere else on the
site?
- If so, contact
the owner or group responsible to see if one page can be revised
rather than developing a new one.
- If not, where
do you think your content should be linked on the site?
- Title
tags
should be present on all pages. For example:
<title>OIT:[subject of the page goes here]</title>.
This helps make our search engine more relevant and useful to
users.
- Metatags
should be used to ensure that your pages are being accurately
searched and displayed by the search engine. For more info on
metatags, click here.
- Content should
not include obviously outdated material (e.g., fall 2001).
Will users seeing your page for the first time think it is no
longer relevant?
- All pages
should use the OIT common design template at left, so they
look like they're part of a single site.
- Identify
and test other OIT links from your page(s).
- When
your page is done, tell others about it. Email the site
URL to the OIT Web Committee at oit-web@listproc.umbc.edu
so others in OIT are aware of it. We can also highlight the link
in the homepage "What's New" section or in the OIT
Newsletter. Don't assume others are divinely aware of your
new creation.
- Monitor
site traffic or Help
Desk requests
to see if the site is helping you and isn't just another thing
to do.
- OIT Web Committee
Membership.
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Using
the OIT Template
Dreamweaver Users:
- Define a site.
- Site -> Define Sites...
- Click on New...
- Give the Site a name
("OIT") and define the Local Root Folder
- Click on OK
- In the Local Root Folder,
create a directory named "Templates"
- Download the Template File
(oit.dwt) into the Templates directory
- Create your document, or
move existing documents into a folder in the Local Root Folder
- In each document, apply
the template.
- Modify -> Templates ->
Apply Templates to Page...
- In the Site List, select
OIT
- Select "oit.dwt"
from the Templates list
- Click on Select
- In the "Choose Editable
Region for Orphaned Content" dialog box, select "body"
from the list
- Hit OK
Outside of Dreamweaver:
- PHP
- Place the following
code before the body of your web page:
<html>
<?php include ("/afs/umbc.edu/public/www/oit/templateinc/template1.inc");
?>
- Place the following
code after the body of your web page:
<?php include ("/afs/umbc.edu/public/www/oit/templateinc/template2.inc");
?>
</body>
</html>
- You may need to remove
all the <head> and <body> tags from your document.
To link your pages to the main
OIT site--or to create a directory in the OIT file structure--please contact
Anna Perez (helpdesk@umbc.edu or x53838).
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