Web guide

Web news

Web standards and best practice

These guidelines apply to websites that are constructed using university resources and conducting university business. All University sites should comply with these web standards.

Organising your website

  1. File naming
  2. Folder naming
  3. Intranets (secure areas)
  4. Renewing and replacing material
  5. Redirects

Creating effective and accessible content

  1. Writing effective web copy
  2. Webpage structure: headings, lists
  3. Links and navigation
  4. Creating accessible Word and PDF files
  5. Using images
  6. Data tables
  7. Text size, broken links, back-to-top and UoB access only includes

Webpage extras

  1. News and RSS feeds
  2. Linking to the Google precinct map
  3. Video
  4. Web forms
  5. Forwarding form input data to an email address

Checking your work

  1. Validating your webpages

Improving website visibility

  1. Get the best from search engines and improve the visibility of your website
  2. Google
  3. A-Z index