Goal: To create two links under School Information that will represent:
- A link to the current version of your school newsletter
- A link to a page that contains an archive of school newsletters using a document container.
To begin:
- Open
Shorts – Decorative Images, Text Images, and Color Contrast
Decorative Images
I want to visit images again to review a couple of common issues I have seen on sites. These issues are easy to recognize if one simply ties to adopt the mindset of a blind or vision impaired … Read the rest
More Style Guidelines for your website
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Do not publish blank pages
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If your drop down menu is already getting too long, don’t include two separate entries for items like Code of Conduct that go directly to either the English or Spanish versions as shown below:
Rather,
The Style of Links
In today’s post, I want to talk a little about style when creating links on a web page. More specifically, I want to talk about how style changes based on the type of medium used to display the link. For … Read the rest
Style and Consistency – Part 1 – Links
Style and consistency on your web pages are very important issues when publishing your finished web page. I am going to take a portion of a web page and highlight some of the things you need to review before publishing … Read the rest
Writing Tips for the Portal
So, I’m just sitting here waiting for Dorian to arrive. I’ve moved all my patio furniture inside along with the plants and other objects the wind could pick up. So, I wondered, “What is there now to do but wait?” … Read the rest
How Does It Look on a Mobile Device?
In the past, we have run Google Analytics which told us that the majority of the web sessions on the OCPS portal were coming from desktop computers. In fact the number was as high as 95% in recent months. However, … Read the rest
Creating Your Accessible PDF from Word
Now that you have a Word Document that is accessible, how can you create a PDF that you can distribute to others outside of OCPS.
Since the 2007 version of Word, you have had an option to change the file … Read the rest
Hyperlinks in Documents
As with links on a web page, links in a document must have alt-text. However, there is a major ‘gotcha’ which I’ll explain a little latter in this post. Let’s begin though by looking at what are some of the … Read the rest
Home Page Clutter
Not everything is important
We know there is a lot going on at your school, but not everything is important enough to be on the home page. The net effect of putting too much stuff on your home page is … Read the rest