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

The objective of the FAO Open Archive project is to merge the EIMS-CDR and the FAODOC into a unique archive, to integrate electronic publishing and bibliographic cataloguing at FAO. The FAO Open A

2. 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

3. Web Usability Matters
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

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

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

...adata will be centralised in a single database. Why bother? For starters, the workflow for publishing documents will be much more efficient. The merger will remove the duplication of work, for ...

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

...k. 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 allo...

6. 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

7. 7.1 Testing approaches
(WEBGUIDE/TESTING)

...ion 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 loc...

8. 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

9. 6.3 Use of style sheets
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

.... W3C created styles (in addition to HTML 4.0) to solve the problem of separating the content of HTML documents from the document's layout.   ...

10. 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....

11. 5.5 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...e refinements of query and results). interface design Can be tracked using: interface design documents, i.e. a list of events triggered by user actions on the screen and the resulting ...

12. 5.4 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...me of which are; control over visibility of information down to document level; versioning of documents and topics; e-mail notification of change at document or topic level; and ...

13. 4.4d How to create or improve current metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...that 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 affec...

14. 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

15. 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. ...

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 4.3c Organizing your text on the page
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...inside 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 wr...

19. 4.3a Writing a page of text
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...no 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 ver...

20. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...lecting 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 come with an administration...

21. 4.1 Developing a content inventory
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

... maintaining the content (doing the coding, conversion, production); document type (e.g. HTML pages, Word documents, PDF documents); links/URLs to existing material; and required/estimated up...

22. 2.2 Roles in Web publishing
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

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

23. 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

24. 6.12c Graphics, document and conversion tools
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...tronic document distribution and exchange. The software is used throughout FAO for the publication of online documents. Adobe PDF files look exactly like original documents and preserve the fonts, ima...

25. 6.12b Web site content management systems
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...al bottleneck. The CDS supports control over visibility of information down to document level; versioning of documents and topics; e-mail notification of change at document or topic level; ontology in...

26. 6.7b Multilingual interfaces
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Guideline  One Web page cannot refer to more than two different character sets at the same time. Therefore, the only way to correctly display various languages on the same Web interface is to use

27. 6.7a Guidelines for language encoding
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

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

28. 6.5c Converting documents from InDesign or QuarkXPress into PDF or HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...obe 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 d...

29. 6.5b Converting Word documents into HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...a Word Template and convert the document using HTML Transit This is the best option for converting large documents. However, it implies that you know how to apply a Word template, that you have a ...

30. 6.5a Converting Word documents into PDF
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...F 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. Cute...

31. 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 th...

32. 6.3a Cascading Style sheets (CSS)
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...rnal Style Sheets can be referenced inside a single HTML document. Cascading Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens or in print. CSS is a fairly new and simple mechanism fo...

33. 6.2c Frames, new windows and pop-ups
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...tangular) 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...

34. 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 w...

35. 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

36. 2.7c Content Management Systems (CMS)
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...tering a Web site's content. A CMS facilitates the organisation, control, and publication of a large body of documents, images, multimedia resources, etc, without programming knowledge. Users access t...

37. 2.7b Dynamic content
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

WHAT IS DYNAMIC CONTENT? In contrast to static content, dynamic content is regenerated every time a user visits or reloads the Web page. A dynamic page is typically compiled from content that is

38. 2.7a Static content
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

In the early days of the Web, content was almost entirely static HTML and text documents. A static page is simply passed to a requesting browser without changes. That is, every time a user accesses

39. 2.3d Regulation of access to servers
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

Policy Test servers FAO staff work on the test site of their Web site before it is placed online. Static Web sites (including those generated by the DWS content management system) are placed on

40. Template documents (project charter, business case, business requirements, project closure) can be downloaded here.
(Enlaces Web / Web Guide Links)

3.1-template