1. Knowledge Sharing Workshops
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

The Web Guide team has been part of an ongoing series of workshops on the methods, tools and services that can facilitate knowledge sharing at FAO. These workshops are in association with colleagues

2. 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

3. Introducing the Knowledge Cafe
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

... at the headquarters or in the field (the Knowledge Cafe is only available on the FAO Intranet - http://intouch.fao.org/ks/). Use the Knowledge Cafe to reach out and connect to everyone at FAO.....

4. 2.8a Online content sharing services
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

... Some Web sites store users' content (such as links or videos) and allow them to be easily incorporated into another Web page. An example is YouTube, where users can upload, view and share video clips...

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

...ple users that visit multiple car sites will see more car adverts when reading the news. Tapping into networks that are using simple means of communications such as email, instant messaging, te...

6. Google Latitude
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...s servers don't do is track movements. Google hasn't announced any plans to integrate advertising into Latitude, but if advertisers can tap into your location and have access to your browsing hi...

7. Facebook Connect
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...ws users to then share information from such sites with their Facebook friends. When a user logs into a site through Facebook Connect it gives that Web site the power of social context that is ...

8. Collaborative tools and Web 2.0
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

... being drafted by the WebGuide team for using collaborative tools to share content and integrating them into FAO Web sites. ...

9. Latest Checklist for new Web sites
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

...e. Most criteria are the result of Web usability and accessibility studies and have been grouped into five sections: Content quality Usability and interface Metadata, reference in...

10. Customized search from Google
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

... Notes on particular sites can also be inserted. SearchWiki is only available when logged into a Google account.  Changes that are made are stored and these modifications are then shown ...

11. 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

12. Web Usability Matters
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...bility While you can conduct simple forms of user testing in a few days and gain extensive insights into both user behavior and recommended design improvements, cost is always a consideration. ...

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

Merging of the CDR and FAODOC into one, sustainable digital repository, offering a solid foundation for the collection, management and maintenance of material published by FAO. A project is u

14. 9.4 Evaluation of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...easy access to the Internet); feedback and results can be ambiguous and hence difficult to interpret into the best way to improve the Web site (this can be addressed by improved survey design); and...

15. 8.2 Promotion
(WEBGUIDE/LAUNCH)

...g 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 materials Marketing materials t...

16. 8.1a Quality assurance before release
(WEBGUIDE/LAUNCH)

...concur with this request, you should, at least, ensure that the home page of the Web site is translated into the six FAO languages. Remember... Use a professional translator! It ...

17. 7.1 Testing approaches
(WEBGUIDE/TESTING)

...inks. However, Linkbot is no longer supported by Watchfire, but its functionality has been incorporated into WebQA a Web site quality-testing tool designed for small, medium and departmental Web sites...

18. 6.11 Domains, URLs and aliases
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... name identifies a Web site on the Internet. Every time a domain name is used it is actually translated into a corresponding Internet Protocol (IP) address. For example the domain name www.fao.org cor...

19. 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

20. 5.2c Define metadata and search requirements
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...nt classification; help you review the labelling; and most important of all - lead you smoothly into identifying the descriptive metadata of the main pages you want to tag and index in EIMS. ...

21. 5.2b Define navigation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...note that the page layout of most sites is based on a design that has the area beneath the banner split into two or three columns. Each column should have a specific role and that role should be consi...

22. 5.2a Identify Web pages and subject categories
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

Guideline A Web site is a combination of Web pages grouped loosely into subject categories that are normally displayed as a menu. Classifying Web pages Defining the content of a Web page

23. 4.3 Writing for the Web
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...ise compared with its hardcopy cousins. For this reason, it is important to invest time and effort into making your Web copy readable. This section contains some simple rules and advice th...

24. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...ies to electronic documents such as HTML, Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Incorporating documents into the CDR means that they can be quickly picked up by internal FAO search engines and externa...

25. 3. Planning
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...ll also help you and your team avoid the risk of your project being downsized, not completed or running into unexpected costs and work when you are approaching the launch deadline. Planning is ...

26. 6.7b Multilingual interfaces
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ment Repository and CDS). Following is an example of how to create UTF-8: copy your text into Windows' Notepad; change the font to one that accepts Unicode (e.g. Arial Unicode); s...

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

...or other characters, depending on the character encoding chosen. For example, the character Ó in the Macintosh Standard Roman Character Set is in the same code point (205) as the equal sign (=) in Win...

28. 6.6b Corporate visual identity
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...rmation on how design elements can influence usability. These Guidelines (and Policies) should be taken into consideration when planning the look and feel of your Web site.   ...

29. 6.5c Converting documents from InDesign or QuarkXPress into PDF or HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...fficially replaced it with InDesign. The process of converting documents from these DTP programs into PDF is similar to what has been described for Word documents. Regarding the conversi...

30. 6.5b Converting Word documents into HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...yout of the 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 lin...

31. 6.5a Converting Word documents into PDF
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... i.e. 72 DPI or produced using Adobe Distiller’s “minimum file size” setting. A document can be divided into more than one PDF file if necessary; it should be a physical replica of the original fi...

32. 6.3c XSLT
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... the presentation of a class of XML documents by describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML document that uses a formatting vocabulary, such as (X)HTML or XSL-FO.   ...

33. 6.2d JavaScript
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ives HTML designers a programming tool, without being a programmer; JavaScript can put dynamic text into an HTML page; JavaScript can react to events - it can be set to execute when something ...

34. 6.2c Frames, new windows and pop-ups
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ill only open in this browser window. Frames Frames allow an author to divide a browser window into multiple (rectangular) regions. With frames, you can display more than one HTML page in the...

35. 6.2b Browser compatibility
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ltimate versions of common browsers. Browsers for all popular operating systems (such as Windows and Macintosh) should be considered. The FAO’s Internet logs show that the most common browsers ...

36. 2.6d How to gather user information: Web site traffic monitoring
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...rved and the referring page. When this information is analysed and monitored it is typically aggregated into a single file or aggregated into distinct logs (e.g., IP logs or referrer logs). Note that ...

37. 2.6c Designing for the user
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...The only way to ensure your site is usable is to test it with real users and incorporate their findings into the site. For major systems, organize regular or periodical usability testing, but other te...

38. 2.6b How to gather user information: user research
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...re releasing a prototype of a system, testing with a small sample of prospective users can give insight into the interface and the logical flow of information. This information is then included in the...

39. 2.5b Minimum current guidelines for language policy
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...lished in all FAO languages, staff should ensure that the Web site's home page (at least) is translated into the six languages. This is also so that the metadata record for the site can be included in...