1. 2.8a Online content sharing services
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...other Web site. Flickr is best suited to a series of low-to-average quality photos that set a scene (document an event such as a conference, workshop or field trial, or describe an object or wo...

2. The next phase of the FAO Open Archive project begins
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

...ation is to evaluate whether an open source tool could: allow open access to better disseminate FAO documentation; support FAO document workflows, for electronic publishing and cataloguing;...

3. A graphical overview of the FAO electronic publishing workflow
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

A set of diagrams have been produced that provide an overview on publishing books, journals and meeting documents through the FAO electronic publishing workflow. These diagrams are available

4. Web Usability Matters
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

... PDF for online reading good for distributing and printing documents; online reading material should have dedicated Web page ...

5. Merging the Corporate Document Repository (CDR) and the Online Catalogue (FAODOC).
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

...ntenance of material published by FAO. A project is under way to merge the metadata of the Corporate Document Repository (CDR) and the Online Catalogue (FAODOC). Different outputs will be maint...

6. What is a Wiki?
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

.... Many people collaborate on projects via e-mail. However, e-mail threads can be cumbersome, attached documents can get lost, and who has the latest version anyway? Wikis solve all that by allow...

7. Print Web Guide
(RESOURCES/RESOURCES)

Print the full Web Guide or a single chapter. Full Web Guide CHAPTERS 1. Introduction 2. Web Publishing Basics 3. Planning 4. Content Collection 5. Design 6. Co

8. Acronyms
(RESOURCES/RESOURCES)

...age   CDR Corporate Document Repository   CDS ...

9. 8.2 Promotion
(WEBGUIDE/LAUNCH)

...xt should be personalized depending on the audience. E-cards can be created by designing the card on a word document and copy and pasting into an e-mail. Sample e-card: Marketing m...

10. 7.1 Testing approaches
(WEBGUIDE/TESTING)

...on on the number of links and files to check. It checks links case sensitively, can validate thousands HTML documents at once, creates various file lists and finds unused files on Web sites or in loca...

11. 6.11 Domains, URLs and aliases
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...name. Detailed information on domain name section, registration and organization is available in the document Internet domain name selection, registration and organization. How to phrase a...

12. 6.5 Conversion of electronic documents
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Guideline  Converting electronic documents into other formats is not always an easy task. The most common procedure is to convert a Word document into PDF, which is an easy step if you have Acroba

13. 6.3 Use of style sheets
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Use of style sheets HTML tags were originally designed to define the content of a document. The layout of the document was to be rendered by the browser, without using any formatting tags.

14. 5.2c Define metadata and search requirements
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...n be found. Metadata is commonly defined as data about data. Broadly, this means information about a document and its content. The primary purpose of metadata is to improve resource discovery t...

15. 5.2b Define navigation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...changes the information in the central column. Try to avoid using the left column to list links to external documents, other Web sites or additional information that is not part of the main Web site. ...

16. 5.5 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...occasional iterations. Things can change at a rapid pace, and in some cases, decisions are made implicitly. Documenting final agreements (what has been done and why) is important to communicate progre...

17. 5.4 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

... and tools that can be used to build a Web site (static pages, static pages with dynamic elements, dynamic, document/workflow management systems and customized databases). For a full glossary o...

18. 5. Design
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...ts visual features; and define the technical implementation requirements. The design stage aims to document the key decisions you and your team will make about: how you organize, clas...

19. 4.4e FAO standards for encoded metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...re specific resources. These elements, known as the Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES) describe document-like resources, such as Web pages, to facilitate resource discovery in a networked ...

20. 4.4d How to create or improve current metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...hat directly affects the public; major formal publications: e.g. annual reports, strategic plans, policy documents, etc.; manuals and documents: those that may be used in decision-making affect...

21. 4.4c How to embed basic metadata in the HTML *head* section
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...meta tag of XHTML is designed to encode named metadata elements. Each element describes a given aspect of a document or other information resource. So, the basic format of a meta tag is: <m...

22. 4.4a What is metadata?
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Metadata is commonly defined as data about data. Broadly, this means information about a document and its content. While the primary aim of metadata is to improve resource discovery, metadata sets a

23. 4.4 Metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...Advanced metadata for Web pages and How to prepare for the ontological future, are covered in complementary documents available on the Agricultural Metadata Element Set project (AgMES) Web site. ...

24. 4.3g Non-discriminatory language
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Each day, people from around the world - from a variety of nations and cultures, of differing gender and age - turn to FAO Web sites for credible and reliable information. Therefore, FAO's onlin

25. 4.3f Quotations
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

All quotations from printed material should correspond exactly to the original in wording, spelling, punctuation, use of capital letters etc. For more information, refer to the FAO House Style.

26. 4.3d How to optimize content for search engines
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...r body text Search engines expect that your first paragraph will contain the important keywords for the document - where most people write an introduction to the content of the page. However, you ...

27. 4.3c Organizing your text on the page
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...nside text is confusing and annoying. Create a resource box where links to important and related Web sites, documents and other multimedia can be listed. This is also useful if the subject you are wri...

28. 4.3a Writing a page of text
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...o more than 400 words per page. Writing for the Web is not as simple as copying and pasting text from documents designed to be read in hard copy. People read and use text on the screen in a very...

29. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Policy and Guideline Selecting and sharing document and files A content repository is a store of different types of items (e.g. documents, bibliographical records and images). Typically, they co

30. 4.1 Developing a content inventory
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...ent owners); unit responsible for maintaining the content (doing the coding, conversion, production); document type (e.g. HTML pages, Word documents, PDF documents); links/URLs to existing ma...

31. 3.3 Define the Web site subject scope
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...isting site if you are redesigning, or from existing sources if you are building a topic-specific portal, a document area or a specialised search engine. re-use, in building and promoting the Web ...

32. 3.2 What and (who) is the site for and what is it about?
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...esign work on a Web site, whether new or a redesign, define the subject area of the Web site. This is worth documenting formally at the beginning, in order to review during the site development proces...

33. 3.1 Consultation
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...uirements?   Information managers - will you need to adopt any information management standards (e.g. document templates and metadata)? Do you need to set up a workflow that integrates with esta...

34. 3. Planning
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...udience; identify the necessary human and financial resources for implementation; Planning aims to document the key decisions you and your team will make about: what you want to do an...

35. 2.2 Roles in Web publishing
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

.../ Content editor defining content requirements and selecting content (e.g. documents, links, etc.) researching, drafting and checking content for publication ...

36. 1.1 FAO and the Internet: What is an FAO Web site?
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

This section explains how the Internet is utilised at FAO. It provides references to key policy documents related to the Internet as a means for communicating FAO messages. The FAO Web site f

37. 6.12c Graphics, document and conversion tools
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... out more about the licensing of this product within your department. Adobe Acrobat Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is the standard for secure, reliable electronic document distribution ...

38. 6.12b Web site content management systems
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...orld, eliminating the editorial bottleneck. The CDS supports control over visibility of information down to document level; versioning of documents and topics; e-mail notification of change at documen...

39. 6.8c Absolute and relative links
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... <a href="img/picture.jpg" Never refer to a local drive <a href="c:/my document/etc"   ...

40. 6.7b Multilingual interfaces
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...e for all dynamic pages displaying information in various languages (e.g. the Information Finder, Corporate Document Repository and CDS). Following is an example of how to create UTF-8: ...

41. 6.7a Guidelines for language encoding
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...s adopt Unicode, we will end up with the best standardized forum for processing and exchanging multilingual documents. Remember... Character Encoding Tips! Insert th...

42. 6.5c Converting documents from InDesign or QuarkXPress into PDF or HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...be PageMaker is still used but Adobe officially replaced it with InDesign. The process of converting documents from these DTP programs into PDF is similar to what has been described for Word do...

43. 6.5b Converting Word documents into HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Guideline  A number of options are outlined below: Open the document with Word and save it as HTML This is very quick but the quality of the resulting HTML code is very poor (i.e. it cont

44. 6.5a Converting Word documents into PDF
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... Writer installs itself as a printer subsystem and enables virtually any Windows applications to create PDF documents simply by printing. CutePDF Writer supports Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. CuteP...

45. 6.4a Graphic formats
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...n allowing for greater compression than GIF by 5-25 percent. This lossless compression method is fast, well documented and available at no cost. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) SVG is a new gr...

46. 6.3c XSLT
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...(XSLT) is a language for transforming XML. An XSLT style sheet specifies the presentation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML document tha...

47. 6.3a Cascading Style sheets (CSS)
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... by editing a single CSS file; and Multiple external Style Sheets can be referenced inside a single HTML document. Cascading Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens or in...

48. 6.2c Frames, new windows and pop-ups
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...angular) regions. With frames, you can display more than one HTML page in the same browser window. Multiple documents can be displayed in a single window, each within its own frame. Each HTML page is ...

49. 6.2a HTML and XHTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...presentation of information on the World Wide Web, using a Web browser. HTML evolved from the need to share documents on the Internet and render them meaningfully on different browser platforms. It wa...

50. 6.1c How to use the FTP server
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Procedure FAO uses an FTP server to store documents, mostly in PDF format. The exact meaning of FTP is File Transfer Protocol. FTP is generally used to exchange documents and materials with