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A design system is a system of visual cues, components, layouts, and guidelines to define and support digital experiences.
A design system isn’t a marketing document. It’s a tool to help web designers, developers and user experience experts create cohesive and adaptable products. A design system creates one single source of truth allowing collaboration and synergy.
Did you know not all webpages are findable through search? Often, we get asked to create a webpage for a specific audience or purpose. If the content is deemed to be private or targeted, the page might be requested to be removed from search. This means search engines will be told to ignore the page and not show it in search results.
Have you ever gone in to edit the content of your webpage, only to find the part you want to edit is a ‘nested content’ component? This article will explain the value of nested content, and why it is used across our CMS.
Web users have short attention spans and limited time. We need to ensure users can quickly and effectively find what they are looking for. As most users scan rather than read content, structure is important. The most effective way to write content for the web that meets your user’s needs is by adopting the inverted pyramid method.
Headings help guide your user through your page. Acting as a guide, headings can break up blocks of text and make your page scannable.
Headings help the reader understand what they are about to read, or quickly jump to a particular topic they’re looking for.
If you’re tasked with creating or updating content on your microsite, you may be asked to create something called ‘evergreen content’.
But what is it, and why is it important for your site? This article will explain everything you need to know about evergreen content.
Planning for a website is just as essential as planning for any business function. Understanding goals can help define requirements and set expectations. We can credit Winston Churchill’s famous quote “He who fails to plan is planning to fail” to web design. Implying missing a critical element in planning for a website can pre-empt difficulty or failure.
The web team can help you define the purpose of your website as well as set goals for success.
Information services (IS) have upgraded our ClearCache tool. The URL and functionality will remain the same with a visual update and faster caching ability.
The Web User Guide and resources website are located on our La Trobe University Intranet. It is your one stop shop for web and content needs. It includes walkthrough guides, resources and tools for web editors. This area also provides links to university policy and regulatory requirements.
To help ease your frustrations we’ve compiled the top 5 editor frustrations we’ve come across whilst managing the CMS to provide solutions and tips to help stop them from happening to you again.
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