1. Web design is 95% typography
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...raphy is an old discipline that requires a lot of studying and concentrated effort. It is about shaping text for an optimal reading experience and has one plain duty before it, that of conveying infor...

2. Google to launch operating system
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

Is the launch of Google Chrome Operating System a move to strike at the heart of Microsoft's software empire? In July, Google announced that it is developing an operating system (OS) for

3. Facebook is watching you... be aware
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

Does the phenomenal success of social networking site Facebook raise questions about our privacy and does it have a more sinister agenda? The world's largest social networking site just got bigger

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

...its 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 te...

5. 1.3 An introduction to Web accessibility at FAO
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

..., referenceable technical standard. Web accessibility at a glance Perceivable Provide text alternatives for non-text content. Provide captions and alternatives for audio and video...

6. 2.8b Using YouTube to store and share FAO videos
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...e version of your video: a. a descriptive title b. a description, including the text "((c)FAO www.fao.org)" and contact details (if required) c. meaningfu...

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

... Tapping into networks that are using simple means of communications such as email, instant messaging, text (sms) and twitter enable rich social profiles identifying those individuals that influence ...

8. Google Latitude
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

Latitude is a location-aware service that is based on Google Maps. Contacts can chose to share their location information by accepting invitations from each other. Their location is the

9. Facebook Connect
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

... When a user logs into a site through Facebook Connect it gives that Web site the power of social context that is currently only available within a social network.  It gives access to an unp...

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

...edia, Enterprise 2.0 is a term describing social software (including Web 2.0 tools) used in business contexts. Enterprise 2.0 includes social and networked modifications to company intranets an...

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

... 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 Anything That Looks ...

12. Web Usability Matters
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...used as orientation points, color-coding is essential Unfriendly Web text Use simple text and layout appropriate for online reading (not p...

13. 2.8 Social Media Policy
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...contributing anonymously. When creating a user account, or making a contribution, please use the text "FAO of the UN www.fao.org" in the metadata. Any content that is submitted...

14. Acronyms
(RESOURCES/RESOURCES)

...mal   HTML Hypertext Markup Language   IA ...

15. 8.2 Promotion
(WEBGUIDE/LAUNCH)

... least 48 hours before the posting date. Messages are usually displayed for one day only. Sample text: Newly designed TC Web sites now online! The Technical Cooperation Department is...

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

... 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 content consistency Go t...

17. 8.1 Launch checklist
(WEBGUIDE/LAUNCH)

...k lies with the Director, KCE, who has an oversight function for WAICENT standards. A system in this context refers to the result of a project. Examples include a new Web site or a new database access...

18. 6.10 Providing access to search
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...KCT. Following is a description of the searches available: 1. When you want: Full-text searches of a set of publicly available Web pages (not including HTTPS [secure] or FTP site...

19. 6.9 Printable pages
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...endly version does not have to be an exact copy of the Web site. The most important element is that the text and content is readable. This can be done by either adjusting the HTML code for tables and ...

20. 5.3c Web site design usability principles
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

... choices do not force the reader to squint! Most commercial Web sites use a white background with black text. Dark text on a light background offers the highest contrast and is the easiest to read. Fi...

21. 5.3a Design visual identity
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

Guideline You should only begin to think about the graphic design of the site once you have identified and gathered content, understood the scope and message of your Web site and defined the infor

22. 5.2b Define navigation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...and column to list this type of information. Central column: the central column normally contains text and in some cases additional materials such as photos, links etc. Try to avoid stuffing the...

23. 5.2a Identify Web pages and subject categories
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...ork  Web Pages Home page text Introduction  Introduc...

24. 5.4 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...e of site you are creating (static, dynamic or hybrid) and the kind of information you want to display (text, maps, statistics, photos etc.). See 2.7 Static and dynamic Web sites at FAO for the...

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

...ate HTML meta tags using your information; open the HTML document and insert the meta tag text at the beginning of your document, directly after the "head" tag; ...

26. 4.3f Quotations
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...otations Short quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks and incorporated in the body of the text. Quotations that are longer than three typed lines should be indented or placed in smaller ...

27. 4.3d How to optimize content for search engines
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

... be found! When writing content keep in mind search engine optimization. Use keywords in your text that will reflect the kinds of terms that your target audience would be searching for - esp...

28. 4.3c Organizing your text on the page
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Once written, text needs to be formatted on a Web page. If you can visualize the first page of a newspaper, you will know that there are different-sized headlines, different sizes of font, bold and

29. 4.3a Writing a page of text
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...you do. Therefore: write out all acronyms the first time they appear on the page; provide context to any statements you make; try and avoid internal FAO jargon or excessive development-s...

30. 4.3 Writing for the Web
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...d the way information is organized but also by the quality of the written content. Highly institutional text, bad spelling and verbose sentences that run for four lines are all major turnoffs. Imagine...

31. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

... select, reuse and/or link to content should be discussed with the contact people for each system. Textual information web publishing: Electronic Information Management Services EI...

32. 3.5 Identify resources
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...ming@fao.org) as they have a special fee per 1 000 words on a Web page. If you have large quantities of text, you may want to consider contracting external translators listed on the Organization's Cor...

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

...able as soon as they are due. All Web sites should show "This page last updated <date>" text or similar. Archives of earlier information can still be made available if the content is d...

35. 1.1 FAO and the Internet: What is an FAO Web site?
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

... Communication Policy and Strategy. FAO uses the Internet as a primary communication channel, in the context of its mandate to "collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to...

36. 6.12b Web site content management systems
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ene, a powerful open source search engine API, allowing it to efficiently search both metadata and free text of content. The CDS has a powerful information syndication mechanism allowing it to render ...

37. 6.12a Recommended editing tools for Web site construction
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...tyle is a CSS/XHTML/HTML Editor. UltraEdit UltraEdit is an HEX, HTML, PHP, Java and JavaScript text editor. XMLSpy Altova XMLSpy is the industry standard XML development environment ...

38. 6.9b Other ways of preparing print-safe Web pages
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... Center Column:<br/> Body of the page, etc. The text within this column will be displayed in a print-friendly page. &...

39. 6.9a How to prepare print-safe Web pages using CSS
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...t;head> <title>Print-safe webpage</title> <meta content="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <LINK ...

40. 6.7b Multilingual interfaces
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... Document 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);...

41. 6.7a Guidelines for language encoding
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...dows-1256) and Macintosh (ISO-8859-6). In addition, it is important to specify in the Web page that the text should be displayed from right to left: <HTML dir="RTL" lang="ar&...

42. 6.5c Converting documents from InDesign or QuarkXPress into PDF or HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...by these programs is not recommended. In case you want to use HTML Transit, you should first export the text and the tables into RTF, as well as the images, and then start the process of conversion fr...

43. 6.5b Converting Word documents into HTML
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

... It makes the task easier for the person preparing the document, as he/she does not need to format the text; and If the document needs to be converted into HTML, KCE will do it using HTML Transit...

44. 6.4a Graphic formats
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...der a graphic. Typically, a metafile is made up of commands to draw objects such as lines, polygons and text and commands to control the style of these objects. Microsoft Windows Metafile (WMF)...

45. 6.3a Cascading Style sheets (CSS)
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...the amount of coding you have to do on your page. For example, if you wanted a page where all the plain text is green, bold and font size two, you could create a style sheet to do this instead of havi...

46. 6.2d JavaScript
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ipt gives 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 somet...

47. 6.2c Frames, new windows and pop-ups
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ate in other media. When the sub-documents of a frame are accessed directly, they appear without the context of the surrounding frameset. Basic browser functions (e.g. printing and moving forwards/bac...

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

Guideline   HTML The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is designed for the presentation of information on the World Wide Web, using a Web browser. HTML evolved from the need to share d

49. 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

50. 2.7c Content Management Systems (CMS)
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...M 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 Systems (D...