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
News Content Pages and the Advance Data Display Portlet
If you are using the Advanced Data Display portlet either on a standalone page or as part of a News Content page, you may have added a Featured Image to Page Content area. If you did, you still need to … Read the rest
MetaData is Too Short or Too Long
First, what is metadata? The quick definition is that metadata is data about data. When talking about web pages, this specifically refers to the ‘Summary’ or ‘Description’ of the web page. The purpose of metadata is to help search engines … Read the rest
Hyperlinks with Images Rather than Link Text
A common occurrence is to have a hyperlink that uses an image rather than Link Text. In these situations, the alt text for the image and link must appear in the <img> tag’s ‘alt’ attribute. There are many cases where … Read the rest
Need a Calendar for the New School Year?
Have you entered your school’s calendar of events for the new school year yet? If so, great! You can stop reading here.
If not, here are some instructions and a file from which you can import the minimum basic school … Read the rest
20 Things That Are Not Cool!
I am not talking about the fact that it is summertime in Florida or how you feel when you lose electricity due to a storm and your air conditioning does not work. No, I am talking about the OCPS websites … Read the rest
Year End Web Site Review
The 2019-2020 school year is essentially over. Now is a good time to review your school or department web site. Did it do everything you hoped it would? If not what could you do different to change that? Are you … Read the rest
Are You a New Editor To Our Web Sites?
First, Happy 100th post!
If you have just been assigned to work on your district department or school web site, you may be asking yourself where to begin. There is no quick 5-minute course on everything you need to … Read the rest
ADA and Tables
A few quick guide to ADA requirements for tables:
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Every table must have a caption (title). In HTML, it looks like this:
<table Border=”0″><caption>Cups of coffee consumed by each teacher per week</caption>
This is not the same as text that … Read the rest
Monsido Accessibility Level AA Errors with Links
Last time, I looked at the Level A accessibility errors related to links. This time, I am moving up to the Level AA link issues. To be compliant at the AA level of WCAG, you must first be compliant at … Read the rest