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

...(most social bookmarking sites also allow their links to be embedded in other Web sites). Many Web pages provide a bookmarking button to add the page to social bookmarking sites such as Del.icio...

2. Update on the proposed corporate look and feel for the FAO Internet site
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

...sory Group) and of the Web Guide Editorial Board. The new FAO homepage and a number of related corporate pages should be published on the FAO Web site around mid-April. New Web sites (including...

3. Web Usability Matters
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...t;usable" Web site should be: easy to navigate (using expected design conventions) fast (pages should download quickly) efficient (users should be able to retrieve what they want) ...

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

... allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass co...

5. Acronyms
(RESOURCES/RESOURCES)

...ement System A Content management system software which automatically creates pages based on a predefined templates. DWS can be customized to the requirements of the client....

6. 9.4 Evaluation of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

... Useful for: identifying the labels users click on the most; identifying how users arrive at pages within a Web site; and identifying links users are not using. Considerations ...

7. 9.3 Traffic monitoring arrangements
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...edirects and multiple locations), contact: web-stats@fao.org. Statistics on visits, visitors, top pages etc. can help you understand what visitors do on your Web site, help you spot its strengt...

8. 9.2 Update procedures for Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

Procedure Once a Web site is published, pages will inevitably need to be updated as time progresses. To have updated static pages from the test server (Faoint0b) published live, write to Web-Intra

9. 9.1 Quality assurance and routine checking
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

Once a Web site is up and running the work does not stop there. Web pages normally require a certain amount of review and maintenance to maintain the relevance and quality of the content.  

10. 8.1a Quality assurance before release
(WEBGUIDE/LAUNCH)

...o through your Web site and re-read the text. If necessary, edit and apply the changes to the translated pages. It is important to use official translations of key terms in FAOTERM and to have similar...

11. 7.1 Testing approaches
(WEBGUIDE/TESTING)

...ous 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 check broken ...

12. 6.10 Providing access to search
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...arches available: 1. When you want: Full-text searches of a set of publicly available Web pages (not including HTTPS [secure] or FTP sites); Quick, easily customizable searches (e.g....

13. 6.9 Printable pages
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Policy Print-friendly pages are a requirement of the FAO Web Quality Assurance Checklist and Web sites will not be published if they are not print-friendly. A Web site should be printable on portr

14. 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

15. 6.7 Language encoding
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Policy All Web pages should have the encoding written in the "head" section. The encoding should be Unicode (UTF-8) or should at least refer to the character set related to the language

16. 5.3b Corporate identity in design
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...e slogan, you must request approval from the Director, KCI).  The overall look and feel of the Web pages should also be consistent with the general layout and design used in the Web sites publis...

17. 5.2c Define metadata and search requirements
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

... Information architecture is about organizing information, whether this is visible in the design of Web pages (and their navigation) or not. It also implies the use of metadata to guarantee that the ...

18. 5.2b Define navigation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...easily? Do you have breadcrumbs? This navigational technique displays the hierarchy of all the Web pages leading from the home page to the currently viewed page. The pages are linked for easy ba...

19. 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

20. 5.5 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...ng: Web site diagrams showing the organization, grouping and labelling of content categories and pages; wireframes, i.e. a high-level schematic of the page layout and the placement of conte...

21. 5.4 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...n provides information on the types of technology and tools that can be used to build a Web site (static pages, static pages with dynamic elements, dynamic, document/workflow management systems and cu...

22. 5. Design
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...and structure the content on your Web site, resulting in grouping, labelling and navigation; how the pages will be laid out, what content will go in them, and what visual elements will characteris...

23. 4.4f Metadata, search engines and their robots
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Guideline  Meta tags are collected from Web pages by visiting robots; applications that automatically crawl the Internet to index Web pages. These robots are called spiders&nbs

24. 4.4e FAO standards for encoded metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...able to allow automatic processing and creation of value-added services. The merging of different pages using metadata can allow us to locate, evaluate and finally access Web resources. ...

25. 4.4d How to create or improve current metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...it is important to keep your page's metadata updated. Follow these criteria to select the Web pages in which metadata should be placed: home pages: the entry point to a divisio...

26. 4.4b Why embed metadata in Web pages?
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...berately or accidentally incorrect. However, metadata can help in many other areas, especially in static pages with stable content. With external search engines such as Google, not including an...

27. 4.4 Metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...following areas will be introduced in this topic: What is metadata?; Why embed metadata in Web pages?; How to embed basic metadata in the HTML <head> section; How to create or im...

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

...ge and continue reading in a linear way as they would with a book. The majority will be referred to your pages from a search engine or from an external link and they will often not arrive via the home...

29. 4.3 Writing for the Web
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...ction contains some simple rules and advice that should allow you to improve the written content on your pages easily. However, it should be remembered that good writing is a skill (and a profession) ...

30. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...uent updates. It allows data owners to enter content that is then published automatically on dynamic Web pages. A search engine allows Web site users to look for archived material. Contact: nems@fao.o...

31. 4.1 Developing a content inventory
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...ible for 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/esti...

32. 3.3 Define the Web site subject scope
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...ent of focussed content. Your concepts are the building blocks for optimising the keyword density on the pages to be submitted to external search engines. prepare for metadata-based indexing and c...

33. 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

34. 2.2 Roles in Web publishing
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

... Web site editor creating and/or maintaining individual or sets of pages cataloguing Web pages   ...

35. 1.2 Quality criteria of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

...uitable for the intended audience - geographical location, age group, interests, language etc. Layout of pages and forms should be consistent and uncluttered. Text should be easily readable in a Web s...

36. 9.1b Content freshness
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...Review the validity of your content, e.g. last updated dates and contact details. Ensure news and events pages, recent publication lists, forthcoming meetings, site maps, etc, are kept up to date and ...

37. 9.1a Maintaining quality
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...rect and the copyright link uses the current year. If you have renamed, moved or deleted your Web pages, use URL redirection. A redirect prevents users from receiving an error (when they visit ...

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

... Web sites. DWS allows content managers or Web site authors, without HTML knowledge, to manage sites and pages dynamically and publish HTML pages based on a set of pre-designed Web site templates. Thi...

39. 6.9b Other ways of preparing print-safe Web pages
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...b page contains a link to the print-friendly version. If your Web site is developed using dynamic pages such as ASP and you want only a selected area of the Web page printed, you can do so by e...

40. 6.9a How to prepare print-safe Web pages using CSS
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

Guideline Most of the problems of incorrectly printed Web pages are associated with the use of HTML tables. Therefore, it is recommended to limit the width in these tables to 600 pixels, which is

41. 6.7b Multilingual interfaces
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...g all FAO languages should use Unicode. In doing so, make sure that the computer or the server where the pages are being developed supports Unicode. This is a common practice for all dynamic pages dis...

42. 6.7a Guidelines for language encoding
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...lain text and transmission of Unicode data can therefore use more bandwidth. It is difficult editing Web pages in Arabic and Chinese if these languages are not installed on the computer in use, as the...

43. 6.3a Cascading Style sheets (CSS)
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...e Sheets (CSS files); External style sheets enable you to change the appearance and layout of all the pages in your Web, just by editing a single CSS file; and Multiple external Style Sheets can...

44. 6.2e HTML metadata tag
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

HTML includes a meta element that goes inside the "head" tag at the top of Web pages. The purpose of this meta element is to provide meta-information about the page so that browsers or sea

45. 6.2d JavaScript
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

JavaScript is the most popular scripting language of the Web. It is used to make Web pages more dynamic and interactive. JavaScript works in all major browsers (usually version 3.0 or higher).

46. 6.2c Frames, new windows and pop-ups
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... were designed. Other disadvantages of using frames are: You must keep track of more HTML pages; It is difficult to print the entire page; and Links to other resources on the Int...

47. 6.2b Browser compatibility
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...tive of the type of browser software you are using. The standards for browsers (to translate HTML pages) are established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C is an international cons...

48. 6.2a HTML and XHTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...concepts of the Web at CERN in the late 1980s. At FAO, the recommended HTML editors to create Web pages are Macromedia's Dreamweaver or HomeSite. XHTML XHTML (Extensible HyperText...

49. 2.7c Content Management Systems (CMS)
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

... Web sites. DWS allows content managers or Web site authors, without HTML knowledge, to manage sites and pages dynamically and publish HTML pages based on a set of pre-designed Web site templates. Thi...

50. 2.7b Dynamic content
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...Web page. A dynamic page is typically compiled from content that is stored in a database. Dynamic pages commonly use programs (e.g. Java), or scripts (e.g. JSP, ASP, PHP), or transformation lan...