FLO style guide for authors
Site structure, headings and text, labels, files, hyperlinks, images, tables, videos, referencing – good practice guidelines for all FLO sites
About this guide
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This guide provides good practice guidelines for the development of FLO sites for topic coordinators and other staff setting up and/or maintaining FLO sites. Following these guidelines will save time and create consistent and user-friendly, visually meaningful FLO sites.
Where possible, examples are provided.
References
Flinders Library, Copyright information for teaching
Flinders University, Writing for the web
Lynch, Patrick J & Horton, Sarah, Web style guide, 3rd edn
National Center on Universal Design for Learning, UDL Guidelines
Wikipedia, Deep linking
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Standards
Key resources
- Styles and layout – main entry (FLO staff support)
- Tip sheet - Accessibility and inclusivity in FLO (Learning and teaching)
- Bootstrap styles in FLO – this mock topic demonstrates styles you could use in your FLO site. Refer to the Bootstrap styling guide (book) for how to.