1. New visual search on Bing
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...search engine, Bing, which allows users to search for information using image galleries rather than text links. Microsoft claims that users can process results with images 20% faster than text o...

2. 1.3 An introduction to Web accessibility at FAO
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

...ltimedia: Provide captioning and transcripts of audio, also descriptions of video. Hypertext links: Use text that makes sense when read out of context. For example, avoid "click...

3. 2.8a Online content sharing services
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...under review by the Web Guide Editorial Board 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 ...

4. Google Latitude
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...tion by accepting invitations from each other. Their location is then plotted on a Google Map with links which allow them to phone, email or instant message each other. Users can follow ei...

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

...e content. Popular content sharing services Using social bookmarking sites to store links, such as Del.icio.us Using Flickr to store/display photos ...

6. What is Enterprise 2.0?
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...les From What Is Enterprise 2.0? For more information, see the following links ABC: An Introduction to Enterprise 2.0 "Enterprise 2.0 has the pot...

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

... Web design are; Bad Search PDF Files for Online Reading Not Changing the Color of Visited Links Non-Scannable Text Fixed Font Size Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility...

8. Web Usability Matters
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

... Bad search   Not changing color of visited links Links are a a key factor in navigation and should be used as o...

9. 2.8 Social Media Policy
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

... and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The Web Guide has links to some short videos explaining how Wikis work. An example of a wiki is Wikigender. ...

10. Acronyms
(RESOURCES/RESOURCES)

...tem An innovative, custom-designed content management system whichsystem that links subject pages with FAO's forest-related databases for the generation of continuously upda...

11. 9.4 Evaluation of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

... users click on the most; identifying how users arrive at pages within a Web site; and identifying links users are not using. Considerations ClickStream analysis software has been ...

12. 9.2 Update procedures for Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

... A reply will be sent mentioning if the update was successful or if errors were present (broken links, etc.). The update will be issued within one working day f...

13. 8.1a Quality assurance before release
(WEBGUIDE/LAUNCH)

...t is released, please ensure that your Web site has been thoroughly reviewed and does not contain broken links. Make sure that your text is consistent with the FAO House Style. Proofreading and c...

14. 7.1 Testing approaches
(WEBGUIDE/TESTING)

... tools There 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 extensive...

15. 6.8 Link management
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Policy Avoid links to pages under construction or to non-existing pages, i.e. remove the <a href=".."> tag. When a page is not available in the given language, the English version

16. 5.2b Define navigation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...e usually 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 ...

17. 5.4 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...to allow users to collect, store, display and visualize data, maps, raster images, metadata, reports and links to other data sources. It provides basic spatial and temporal analytical capabilities. It...

18. 4.4f Metadata, search engines and their robots
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

... NOINDEX - instructs a search engine not to include a page in its index (search results) but follow the links contained in that page; NOFOLLOW - instructs a search engine to index the page but not...

19. 4.3d How to optimize content for search engines
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...he HTML. For example: COMMENT: <!-- FAO News & Highlights --> Use keywords in hyperlinks Search engines attempt to calculate the focus of your page. Words hyperlinked in...

20. 4.3c Organizing your text on the page
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...egional_en.asp   Keep resources separate and link to them Having too many live links inside text is confusing and annoying. Create a resource box where links to important and...

21. 4.3a Writing a page of text
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...Interactivity is a key component of the experience, even if that only amounts to navigation and clicking links; and Online users are generally more impatient. People do not want to spend time figur...

22. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...uding technical papers and publications produced by a specific project; and working papers. Links to these types of publications may be created from the CDR to other portions of the Web s...

23. 4.1 Developing a content inventory
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

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

24. 3.2 What and (who) is the site for and what is it about?
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

... addition to, or differently from, what is already there? If it is a portal site (a themed collection of links), what advantage does the proposed site have over a search engine such as Google? K...

25. 2.4 Policy and legal matters
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...b site should contain a copyright mark and the current year (i.e. © FAO, 2006) which, when clicked, links to the following page in the appropriate language: Arabic: http://www.fao.org/cop...

26. 2.2 Roles in Web publishing
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

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

27. 1.2 Quality criteria of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

...tent that can be found elsewhere is not advised. It is recommended to reference the material and provide links to the source/original content. Timeliness and Freshness Information should be ...

28. 9.1a Maintaining quality
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

Guideline   Links Ensure internal and external links continue to work (use link checking software to automate this) and are up to date, e.g. e-mail addresses are correct and the copyright link u

29. 6.9b Other ways of preparing print-safe Web pages
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...t;--> </td> <td>Right Column:</br>Other links</td> </tr> </table> </body> ...

30. 6.8d Avoid spamming on e-mail addresses
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...t Ways of using JavaScript to avoid spamming - visit the following Web sites; Coding e-mail links to avoid spam; Protect your email address; and Hide From E-mail Spiders. Non-cl...

31. 6.8c Absolute and relative links
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Policy Links should be expressed as "absolute", for example: <a href=http://www/etc or "relative", for example: <a href="img/picture.jpg"

32. 6.8b Links to the FAO home page, FAO copyright and the Information Finder
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Policy The FAO emblem must link to the FAO home page. It must also be language specific, i.e. on a Spanish language Web page it should link to http://www.fao.org/index_es.htm; On each Web page

33. 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

34. 6.5b Converting Word documents into HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...d to divide into many files, with a clickable table of contents (unless you want to manually add all the links). Apply a Word Template and convert the document using HTML Transit This is the ...

35. 6.2c Frames, new windows and pop-ups
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...get="_new". This code will make the page open in a different browser window, but as successive links are opened, they will only open in this browser window. Frames Frames allow an a...

36. 2.9c FAO server structure
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

... environment replicates the published level to ensure that the content is not only correct, but fits and links correctly within the whole Web site. Staging/test levels are used for both static and dyn...

37. 2.7c Content Management Systems (CMS)
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...ystem (FORIS) The Forestry Department's Web site is managed using a custom-designed CMS. FORIS links subject pages with FAO's forest-related databases to generate continuously updated inform...

38. 2.6c Designing for the user
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...ollow conventions Conventions (like the FAO emblem linking to the FAO home page or underlined links) save you much work and are solutions for recurrent design problems. See other design con...

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

...ed in the FAO search engine, the Information Finder. Do you know about... Language links? The order in which the language icons should be displayed is always in alphabe...