Web topics

The following pages contain information about each web topic, with links to more resources such as websites, training courses, presentations, books and articles. If you would like more information about these, or other web related topics, please contact us.

• Accessibility - introduction and resources. Also see accessibility tools.
• Archiving - introduction and resources.
• Character entities
• Colour - see How to work with images and colour for more information.
• Content - introduction and resources.
• Copyright - see How to comply with university web publishing policies for more information.
• Email munger - disguise an email address on a webpage to avoid email spam
• Glossary - definitions of phrases, words and acronyms used on this site
• Forms - see How to create an online form for more information.
• Hiding your web pages from search engines
• Images - see How to work with images and colour for more information.
• Information architecture and navigation - introduction and resources.
• Links - examples that demonstrate styling of links in the university style sheets. Also see link checker.
• Lists - examples that demonstrate the styling of lists in the university style sheets.
• Metadata - introduction and resources.
• Metadata tags - details of each university metadata tag.
• Page elements - examples of template styles such as 'notice', importantnotice', 'news box' and 'information box'.
• Search engines - introduction and resources.
• Search engine optimisation - make sure that your webpages feature in search engine results.
• Selecting online survey tools - what you need to know selecting an online survey tool.
• Tables - copy the source code from the examples in this style guide.
• Templates - a suite of web publishing templates to help university staff publish compliant web content. See also the list of sites using the current templates.
• Text - examples that demonstrate the styling of text in the university style sheets, eg heading 1, heading 2, strong text, acronym, small text.
• Usability - introduction and resources.
• Web development - introduction and resources.
• Web management and maintenance - introduction and resources.
• Web publishing policies and guidelines - draft document includes links to more information
• Website statistics - introduction and resources.
• Writing for the web - checkpoints to follow when writing web content

If you are unsure of what a term means. refer to the glossary.