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Content Creation

Sable Cantus

2013 Rio Hondo Website Refresh

Creating Content for the Web

Thank you for being here today!

Your work is very important!

Let's get started!

What to Expect Today

  • Talk about good content
  • Talk about identifying our target audience
  • Make an outline of new site
  • Look at our existing content
  • Take some time to work

Find Your Area

A Plain Text Editor

Why use something so simple when we have word?

Focus

Start With An Outline

Home
  - Welcome and About ITS
Help Desk
  - Contact Info
  - How to access the help desk
    - How to Write a Good Help Desk Ticket
Audio / Visual
  - Contact Info
  - Services Available
Training
  - Contact Info
  - Scannable Info on areas of training
  - Past workshop notes
  - Help Articles on Sidebar

ITS Website

Who Is Your Audience?

  • students
  • faculty
  • staff
  • the general public
  • adult learners
  • ???

What Are They Looking For?

  • Location
  • Office Hours
  • Forms
  • Download Documents
  • ???

Don't Look Like Ling!

Ling missed his training day

Try These...

  • Write like a journalist by putting the important information up front with links to further details
  • Write concisely and in plain english
  • Start from scratch and use only what you need
  • Review, review, review
  • Only underline hyperlinks and use bold or italics sparingly instead for emphasis

Help Readers Scan

  • Use headings and sub-headings
  • Write short sentences
  • Limit paragraphs to two-three sentences
  • Use bulleted or numbered lists
  • Plan to use pictures, images, diagrams, or illustrations to visually represent ideas in the content
  • Add a table of contents at the top of the page and hyperlink the categories to the related content on the page
  • Use white space to visually separate information

from Usability.gov

Structure Your Text

  • Make use of bold headings, short paragraphs, bullet lists and tables if the information requires it.
  • To better organize your thoughts, divide your article into sub-headings. Sub-headings make things easier to digest.
  • Instead of tackling the entire article at once, try writing one paragraph at a time.

Test Your Content's Readability

Try pasting your content into Microsoft Word and use the Readability Statistics feature.

What's the Score?

The Flesch Reading Ease score can be used to identify the age at which an audience will be able to understand your writing.

Score       Notes
90.0–100.0  easily understood by an average 11-year-old student
60.0–70.0   easily understood by 13- to 15-year-old students
0.0–30.0    best understood by university graduates

How do they calculate this?

Enable Readability Statistics in Word

File » Options » Proofing » Enable Readability Statistics

Use the Spelling & Grammar Tool

Review » Spelling & Grammar

Review, Review, Review, Refresh

  • Review your content before you publish
  • Does your content "make sense" to someone else?
  • Make yourself a reminder to go through your site and make sure the content is current

Some Tips to Collaborate

You can utilize online tools to collaborate efficiently.

Questions?

Thank You

This presentation is available at riohondo.edu/its/content_creation

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