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Standards
- Follow template designs for consistency
- put content (especially page tabs) in the same region for navigation consistency [usability feedback]
- Guide types:
- Subject Guides are overarching discipline/school guides.
- Course Guides: page title: Class Name (department number-course number) EXAMPLE: Comp I: Academic Literacies (10-111)
- General Purpose Guides general content
- Include Subject and keyword tags for findability
- Add description under page title to promote libguide for better findability.
- Create friendly URL for each guide and page (aka tab) for shorter links
- Left-side navigation
- font size Arial 14
- Best Bets in first box on Research guides
- Capitalize first word and proper nouns in all page names, box names, tabbed boxes
- One-two word page tabs: no library jargon, e.g., books vs. catalog
- Short link names
- Brief text/description/narrative (including annotations for resources)
- Open links in new window; use https://
- When needed, use tabbed content within boxes to keep box size usable
- All Images need to have an alt tag for ADA compliance: provide credit for image
- Use Librarian, Ask A profile on every guide unless session course librarian profile is used
Things to avoid
- Avoid formating text (font style and size). The system does it automatically. Exceptions include size 10 text such as photo credit info or captions.
- Avoid underlining text (only links are underlined, if needed for emphasis)
- Avoid using heading fonts
- Avoid using more than two columns whenever possible