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Check your guide for the following best practice guidelines:
| √ | Guidelines | Instructions |
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| Account profile was updated with contact information and an image | Profile Customization | |
| Naming conventions followed for both guide title and page titles | Guide Type & Naming Changing Guide Options |
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| Guide type assigned | ||
| Guide subjects and tags assigned | ||
| Friendly URL assigned | ||
| Profile box is added to the guide home page | Creating Content Best Practices: Reusability Best Practices: Layout & Content |
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| Content is thematically chunked into pages and boxes | ||
| Content reused when possible | ||
| Boxes are ordered and placed based on responsive design principles | ||
| Guide has been viewed on multiple devices to check responsiveness | ||
| Text written with web consumption in mind: keep it short and simple | ||
| Resource lists are kept short and organized in order of importance | ||
| Consider your users: use plain language and be inclusive when adding content | ||
| Be selective about what to create and be future-friendly | ||
| Use default font with minimal italics and bold and no underlining or ALL CAPS | Best Practices: Accessibility | |
| Start with Heading 3 when you use headers for content structure in rich text editor | ||
| Link text (title) should be descriptive | ||
| Database or links descriptions should display beneath the link title | ||
| All images have alt-text descriptions | ||
| Assign table headers and add caption and summary to describe table (data table only) |