Best Practice Guidelines Checklist: LibGuide Policy Manual
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√ Guidelines
- Account profile was updated with contact information and an image
- Naming conventions followed for both guide title and page titles
- Guide type assigned
- Guide subjects and tags assigned
- Friendly URL assigned
- Profile box is added to the guide home page
- Content is thematically chunked into pages and boxes
- Content reused when possible
- Boxes are ordered and placed based on responsive design principles
- Guide has been viewed on multiple devices to check responsiveness
- Text written with web consumption in mind: keep it short and simple
- Resource lists are kept short and organized in order of importance
- Consider your users: use plain language and be inclusive when adding content
- Be selective about what to create and be future-friendly
- Use default font with minimal italics and bold and no underlining or ALL CAPS
- Start with Heading 3 when you use headers for content structure in rich text editor
- Link text (title) should be descriptive
- Database or links descriptions should display beneath the link title
- All images have alt-text descriptions
- Assign table headers and add caption and summary to describe table (data table only)
