PAM Division Web Guidelines
These guidelines were established to maintain the uniformity of the Division web site pages. The web site was redesigned to bring the pages in line with current coding practices, most importantly the use of style sheets. To this end, web page creators are encouraged to use the style sheet for creating and maintaining web pages for the Division web site.The site's underlying directory structure was updated to reflect a more logical structure. Web page creators should place pages in directories which work logically with the new structure, e.g. a page on membership should be in the membership directory, not in the Division home directory. If in doubt, please consult the Network Committee Chair.
Web page creators should not use Microsoft Word to create pages as this software adds in many unnecessary tags and creates very sloppy coding.
| Guideline | Examples |
|---|---|
| Use the web page template to create pages. | |
| Always correct the Page last updated date when making changes to a page. | Page last updated: July 25, 2003 |
| Use <strong> instead of <b>. | Bold |
| Use <em> instead of <i>. | Italics |
| Avoid the use of </p>, <tbody>, <font>, and </li> tags. | |
| Use CLASS arguments in HTML tags to change the format of text. Defined classes can be found in the style sheet for the web site. If there is not a class in the style sheet which fits what you would like to do, contact the Network Committee Chair. | <p class="small"> to make text render smaller than the normal font size <p class="blue"> to make the text render in the blue colour used for text accents |
| Use STYLE arguments in HTML tags to set parameters for cells in tables. | <td style="align: left; vertical-align: top"> aligns the text vertically at the top and horizontally to the left in the cell |
Page last updated: July 25, 2003