Style Guide for Web Authors

General best practice guidelines

Be consistent with the current layout found throughout the website as this allows for easier and faster navigation.

Use descriptive 'alt' tag for all images that is meaningful to the viewer, for example use 'Charles Darwin University ' instead of 'logo'
Do not use flashing, flickering, blinking or moving images as this distracts the user from the information
Use high contrast images so that people with visual disabilities including colour blindness, can easily see these images
All images should be modified for the web.

Web safe colours should be used, however except for photos and graphics, only CDU corporate web safe colours are to be used, these are: Black = #000000, Red = #CC0000, Greys = #CCCCCC, #666666, #999999
Use contrasting colours so that these colours can be easily seen by people with visual disabilities including colour blindness
Use Hex code for colours and not names for example '#FFFFFF' instead of 'white'.

Do not use phrases such as 'click here' - Don't 'click here': writing meaningful link text (www.deyalexander.com.au)
Do not use flashing, flickering, blinking or moving text
Do not refer to items in colour (i.e. 'refer to the pink bulleted items')
Expand abbreviations and acronyms for the first occurrence on each page
Contrast text colours with background colours
Link names should be as close as possible (if not the same as) the heading of the page it is linking to.

Divide large blocks of information into more manageable groups where natural and appropriate
Use links that take to view back to the top of the page where appropriate.