Top 10 Content Tips

Follow these basic rules for formatting pages to ensure consistency across the website.

1. Page names should be sentence case – no random capital eg. Support and services. 

2. Date format – DD Month YYYY. 

3. Bulleted list format – first letter is always lower case and no colon or full stop at the end (unless it is a full sentence). 

4. Phone number format – (externally facing pages) [phone]; (internally facing pages) 4921 0000. 

5. PDF assets should be set to open in a new window. All links to external sites should remain in the same window. 

6. PDF hyperlinks should include the file size eg. compliance register (PDF, 445KB). 

7. A contact footer should be used for all contact details (not in the content area). 

8. Headings on the page should be in a logical order – eg. a H3 tag should be used as a subheading of the H2 tag above.

9. All tables should have a heading. Each row and column should also have a descriptive header, this is important for accessibility. Tables should be used to display data and not as a formatting tool.

10. Avoid using ‘click here’ in hyperlinks. Instead, consider “Visit our Current students area for more information” with a link to Current students.