FAO Web guide: Web resources

Web Guide home 1. Introduction 2. Web publishing basics 3. Planning 4. Content collection 5. Design 6. Construction 7. Testing 8. Launch 9. Maintenance 10. Writing for the Web Resources 1.1 FAO and the Internet: What is an FAO Web site? 1.2 Quality criteria of Web sites 1.3 An introduction to Web accessibility at FAO 1.4 Electronic publishing at FAO 2.1 Content quality 2.2 Roles in Web publishing 2.3 Web site quality clearance and continuity 2.4 Policy and legal matters 2.5 Language coverage policy 2.6 Web site traffic monitoring 2.7 Static and dynamic content 2.8 Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.9 Social Media Guidelines 2.10 Current server structure at FAO 3.1 What and (who) is the site for and what is it about?3.2 Define the Web site subject scope 3.3 Define your audience 3.4 Identify resources 3.5 How to track and share planning decisions 4.1 Developing a content inventory 4.2 FAO content repositories 4.3 Metadata 5.1 Review user needs 5.2 Defining information architecture 5.3 Prepare interface design 5.4 Define technical implementation 5.5 Tracking design implementation 6.1 Management of files/naming 6.2 HTML and coding 6.3 Use of style sheets 6.4 Graphics 6.5 Conversion of electronic documents 6.6 Language encoding 6.7 Link management 6.8 Printable pages 6.9 Providing access to search 6.10 Domains, URLs and aliases 6.11 Tools 7.1 Testing approaches 7.2 How to use the test environment 8.1 Launch checklist 8.2 Promotion 9.1 Quality assurance and routine checking 9.2 Update procedures for Web sites 9.3 Web usage analysis 9.4 Evaluation of Web sites 10.1 Writing a page of text 10.2 Organizing your text on the page 10.3 How to optimize content for search engines 10.4 How to write feedback, error messages 10.5 Quotations 10.6 Non-discriminatory language Checklists Acronyms Newsletter Guidelines Policies Procedures Web resources Tag cloud Contacts 2.3a Data ownership 2.3b Regulation of access to servers 2.3c Clearance of Web sites by OCP 2.4a Country names, flags and maps 2.4b The fao.org domain, subdomains and root directories 2.4c Use of FAO emblem and logos 2.4d Politically sensitive material 2.6a FAO Web sites: the user perspective 2.6b How to gather user information: user research 2.6c Designing for the user 2.6d Page size and downloading 2.7a Static content 2.7b Dynamic content 2.7c Content Management Systems (CMS) 2.9a FAO and Facebook 2.9b FAO and Flickr 2.9c FAO and Google+2.9d FAO and LinkedIn 2.9e FAO and SlideShare 2.9f FAO and Twitter 2.9g FAO and Wikipedia 2.9h FAO and YouTube 4.3a What is metadata?4.3b Why embed metadata in Web pages?4.3c How to embed basic metadata in the HTML head section 4.3d How to create or improve current metadata 4.3e FAO standards for encoded metadata 4.3f Metadata, search engines and their robots 5.2a Identify Web pages and subject categories 5.2b Define navigation 5.2c Define metadata and search requirements 5.3a Corporate visual identity 5.3b Web site design usability principles 6.1a How to use the FTP server 6.2a HTML and XHTML 6.2b Browser compatibility 6.2c New windows and pop-ups 6.2d JavaScript 6.2e HTML title and metadata tags 6.3a CSS and Web accessibility 6.3b Cascading Style sheets (CSS) and browser compatibility 6.4a Graphic formats 6.4b Use of images on the Web 6.4c Photos 6.5a Converting Word documents into PDF 6.6a Guidelines for language encoding 6.6b Multilingual interfaces 6.7a Linking files across languages 6.7b Links to the FAO home page, FAO copyright and AskFAO 6.7c Absolute and relative links 6.7d Avoid spamming on e-mail addresses 6.8a How to prepare print-safe Web pages using CSS 6.8b Other ways of preparing print-safe Web pages 6.11a Recommended editing tools for Web site construction 6.11b Graphics, document and conversion tools 9.1a Maintaining quality 9.1b Content freshness
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	Web resources Accessibility and usability FAO Web Content Accessibility Checklist FAO’s Accessibility Guidelines derived from the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), version 2.0, which have become an established standard for measuring online accessibility. Making Accessible Web Sites for the United Nations This is the official site on Making Accessible Websites for the United Nations. In this site, you will find a downloadable template to make your own accessible site, along with the guidelines published by the United Nations on accessible websites. RNIB - Web Access Centre The RNIB Web Access Centre offers information and advice on making Web sites accessible to everyone. W3C - Web Accessibility Initiative The mission of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is to lead the Web to its full potential to be accessible, enabling people with disabilities to participate equally on the Web. W3C - WAI-ARIA (Rich Applications) ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite presented here by the Web Accessibility Initiative, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind WebAIM is a non-profit organization within the Utah State University that provides comprehensive Web accessibility solutions. Usability.gov One-stop source for US government web designers to learn how to make Web sites more usable, useful, and accessible. useit.com: usable information technology Jakob Nielsen's Web site on usability. UsabilityNet Methods and resources for usability and user centered design, management, education and training, case studies and standards. FAO resources FAOTERM database: Names of countries and areas Database consisting of names of countries or areas and their capital cities including adjectives of nationality, capital cities and currency units in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Italian. AGROVOC FAO's multilingual agricultural thesaurus. AgMES: The Agricultural Metadata Element Set AgMES is the metadata standard developed for the description and discovery of agricultural information resources. It provides a set of metadata elements that can be used to describe information resources in the areas of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Food Security, and other related domains. Corporate Document Repository – A Guide for Users [internal] This guide explains the electronic publishing process at FAO. It describes how FAO staff may include documents and publications in the Corporate Document Repository (CDR) by working with OEKM and other staff in the Organization. External resources and organizations Adobe Reader Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) is available as a free download from Adobe's Web site, and allows the viewing and printing of PDF files. CutePDF Writer CutePDF Writer is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. Adaptive Path: Doing a Content Inventory Robots.txt Checker robots.txt checker is a "validator" that analyzes the syntax of a robots.txt file to see if its format is valid. The Definition of Information Architecture The term information architecture describes a specialized skill set which relates to the interpretation of information and expression of distinctions between signs and systems of signs... Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) The mission of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is to provide simple standards to facilitate the finding, sharing and management of information. W3C resources World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. W3C HTML5 This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). W3C - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Authoritative information from the W3C providing complete specifications, lists of CSS browsers and authoring tools, and information about Cascading Style Sheets. W3C CSS Validation Service Finds errors and potential problems in Cascading Style Sheets. W3C Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Initiative developings best practices for creating mobile-friendly content and applications, enabling easy access to device descriptions, setting up test suites for increased interoperability of mobile browsers, and exploring ways to use the Web on mobile devices to bridge the digital divide. W3 Schools HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSL, ASP, SQL, ADO, VBScript, Tutorials, References, Examples. W3 Schools XSLT Tutorial XSL stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language, and is a style sheet language for XML documents. XSLT stands for XSL Transformations. In this tutorial you will learn how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into other formats, like XHTML. W3C - Web Accessibility Initiative The mission of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is to lead the Web to its full potential to be accessible, enabling people with disabilities to participate equally on the Web. W3C - WAI-ARIA (Rich Applications) ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite presented here by the Web Accessibility Initiative, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. External web guides USA Webcontent.gov Webcontent.gov is a practical guide to help US Government agencies manage their Web sites. Australian Government The Web Publishing Guide helps Australian Government agencies to manage their websites, and to identify their legal and policy obligations. and Blog. Google Webmaster Guidelines Guidelines to help Google find, index, and rank Web sites. IBM Web accessibility checklist Developer guidelines for Web checklist. BBC Standarts and Guidelines This site details all standards & guidelines for developing and delivering products and services for BBC online (bbc.co.uk).