1. Meet your colleagues in the Knowledge Cafe
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

In the Knowledge Cafe there are now 160 profiles of people who work at FAO, including those in Decentralised offices. Visit the Knowledge Cafe to discover your colleagues. Remember, there

2. The Future of Social Networking
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...ndividuals of specific demographics. Search behaviour across sites is already being used to build profiles of individuals, for example users that visit multiple car sites will see more car adverts...

3. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design, by Jakob Nielsen
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...akes of Web design. Jakob Nielsen's top ten mistakes in Web design are; Bad Search PDF Files for Online Reading Not Changing the Color of Visited Links Non-Scannable Text Fi...

4. 2.8 Social Media Policy
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...ed for distribution, or considered sensitive to FAO stakeholders. For example, The Lubin Files is a personal blog that discusses the FAO's Lublin Memorial Library. Note...

5. 9.4 Evaluation of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...lysis software has been tested at FAO but was not adopted as it was unable to handle the size of FAO log files. It may be useful for individual sites; and additional logging may have an impact on s...

6. 9.2 Update procedures for Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...rite to Web-Intranet-Updates@fao.org specifying the name of the Web site and the server, the name of the files etc. Sample e-mail: To: Web-Intranet-Updates Subject: Web site page up...

7. 7.2 How to use the test environment
(WEBGUIDE/TESTING)

...iew of the server structure at FAO, specifically the so-called production and test areas. Placing files in the one of the test servers, enables a user to see how the Web site will perform once ...

8. 7.1 Testing approaches
(WEBGUIDE/TESTING)

...ere are various tools available to check a Web site in a few minutes, in particular broken links, orphan files, slow pages and missing attributes. Linkbot has been used extensively in KCE to c...

9. 6.11 Domains, URLs and aliases
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ot;%20%" and may produce errors. How to obtain an alias or subdomain An alias is used when files are located in directories making a URL difficult to remember, for example, the Web page ...

10. 6.5 Conversion of electronic documents
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... of the full Adobe Acrobat package) or CutePDF (a free tool that converts Word documents into simple PDF files). Conversion into HTML is more difficult, especially if you have a large document ...

11. 6.1 Management of files/naming
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

12. 5.3b Corporate identity in design
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...k to the FAO home page in the same language as the originating page. To download the FAO emblem and logo files, as prepared by KCI, visit the Web page Information for designers and illustrators. ...

13. 5.5 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...ns on the screen and the resulting display; and mock-ups of the main page types, e.g. usually graphic files of how the pages will look based on the information architecture and the interface design...

14. 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

15. 4.1 Developing a content inventory
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Guideline A content inventory is useful in the Planning stage of the development of a Web site. The collecting (and auditing) information about the content of your Web site will streamline the def

16. 3.3 Define the Web site subject scope
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

..., and easier to be selected, aggregated and displayed in other relevant systems, like the FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System. set the criteria for the selection, acquisition and c...

17. 2.7 Static and dynamic content
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

Web pages are either static HTML or dynamic pages. Static HTML pages are text files that are simply displayed by your browser. Alternatively, Dynamic Web pages are assembled as they are requested an

18. 2.2 Roles in Web publishing
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...   Webmaster managing files on the site collecting, answering or routing feedback from users running rout...

19. 1.1 FAO and the Internet: What is an FAO Web site?
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

...e Publishing Production Group, also in KCII. While the publication is being printed, the electronic files are processed by the Document Repository team in KCEW to publish them online as HTML and/...

20. 6.12c Graphics, document and conversion tools
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ion 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, images, graphics and layout ...

21. 6.9b Other ways of preparing print-safe Web pages
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...a in a special tag named <sp> (and </sp> to close the section) and including two special ASP files in the folder of your current Web site (printlink.asp and print.asp). Example: ...

22. 6.8a Linking files across languages
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

 Policy The link to an active Web page, i.e. the one you are currently on, should not be clickable. Links to the other language versions should be managed consistently. For example, if a user is

23. 6.6a FAO emblem
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...atermark. The FAO emblem may only be UN blue, black or reversed-out white. To download FAO emblem files, as prepared by KCI, see Information for designers and illustrators. The FAO emble...

24. 6.5b Converting Word documents into HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...he document. This is not an option if you have a large document that you need to divide into many files, with a clickable table of contents (unless you want to manually add all the links). ...

25. 6.5a Converting Word documents into PDF
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...d Chinese documents. Adobe Acrobat This is the most common commercial software for creating PDF files. It uses Acrobat Distiller and provides a number of advanced options that are not availab...

26. 6.4b Use of images on the Web
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... EPS Importing, exporting and reusing PostScript language files in all environments A production and exchange format unsuitabl...

27. 6.4a Graphic formats
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...PEG file will compress a photographic image two to three times smaller than a GIF. Compression makes JPG files a poor choice for archiving or for when you might need the image at full quality later. ...

28. 6.3a Cascading Style sheets (CSS)
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...Styles define how to display HTML elements; Styles are normally stored in external Style Sheets (CSS files); External style sheets enable you to change the appearance and layout of all the page...

29. 6.1c How to use the FTP server
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...rials with users on the Internet. It should be used in the following cases: For large numbers of files in PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint format; and For other type of files that are intende...

30. 6.1b Versioning and archiving
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Guideline You should regularly back-up files when developing a Web site, for two main reasons: To keep track of the changes, in particular if you need to come back to a previous versi

31. 6.1a File naming and organization conventions
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Policy Ensuring that your files are logically and comprehensively named is an important part of a successful Web site. FAO already has a policy on how Web files should be named. The WAICENT File n

32. 2.9c FAO server structure
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

Published Level The published (or production) level is where the final content (files etc.) is placed so that external audiences can view it. The audience could be the Internet (genera

33. 2.7c Content Management Systems (CMS)
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...s or (WCM systems). This is to differentiate them from CMSs that exclusively manage and store electronic files: text and/or images, audio, video, etc. These are sometimes called Document Management Sy...

34. 2.7b Dynamic content
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...namic sites are: International Portal on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System -all the pages related to countriesare dynamic FAOTERM...

35. 2.6d How to gather user information: Web site traffic monitoring
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...fic time period, which is referred to as the report period. Web traffic analysis refers to analysing log files, i.e. parsing and calculating indicators from values contained in log files. These files ...

36. 2.4c Use of FAO emblem and logos
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...ear programme, project and partner organizations' logos with LEG and KCII. To download FAO emblem files, as prepared by KCI, see Information for designers and illustrators. ...

37. 2.4a Country names, flags and maps
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...mation is available in the Administrative Circular AC2004/22. Country flags The FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System Web site displays the country flags officially r...

38. 2.3d Regulation of access to servers
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...ocument-Repository@fao.org. Access is granted to a specific area on the test server to copy and exchange files. Otherwise, only the Corporate Document Repository focal points have access. Intrane...

39. Guidelines for creating PDF files for the Web
(Enlaces Web / Web Guide Links)

6.5c-pdf

40. Downloadable content inventory template
(Enlaces Web / Web Guide Links)

4.1-inventory