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Posted on February 13, 2018May 11, 2018

It Is Your Destiny

Back in November of 2017, we asked schools to check their links to Destiny as many links were either resulting in errors, prompting the user to log in or simply did not exist on the site.  We have noticed that … Read the rest

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Posted on February 7, 2018May 11, 2018

Hyperlink Colors – Part 2

SchoolMessenger has completed their update of school hyperlink colors. In most cases our color recommendation was accepted. However, some of our selections were overridden by SchoolMessenger to provide for better ADA compliance with all possible viewers including those with various … Read the rest

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Posted on January 22, 2018May 11, 2018

How to Enter Email Links

When you enter an email address on a web page, it is very important that the final address link on the page includes the prefix: mailto: before the email address. If it does not, the email address may be interpreted … Read the rest

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Posted on January 19, 2018February 25, 2019

Link Colors and Color Contrast for ADA

I got this very useful document related to ADA compliance from SchoolMessenger to other day and thought you all might be interested. We will be selecting colors from the ‘safe’ list in the document for each school matching as close … Read the rest

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Posted on January 9, 2018May 9, 2018

Page Links vs External Links

When you look at the top-level navigation in your school site or the side navigation in your department site, you may have a series of links as shown in the following two images:

For a School:

For a Department:

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