Website Conventions
Hi all,
We have to agree on a number of conventions so that our Dublin by Lamplight site is professional and uniform. Here are a few that came up last week:
1. Pages are not ‘owned’ by a single author, but small number of pages with a few sub-pages each is a good format to pursue.
2. All blurbs should have their author noted at the bottom of the blurb using the following style: leave a space, then write a dash, a space, and your name. Example:
- Natalie Harrower
3. All students must track their individual contributions on a one page document, that will be submitted to me the day the website is due (March 19 in class). This way, I can trace all of the ‘unseen’ contributions, such as the formatting of pages, the addition of joint topic headers, etc.
4. Let’s agree to use common ‘Heading Styles’ to denote Topics, subtopics, etc. (Discuss in class March 10)
5. Keep Page titles short – fit within the right column
6. Students should provide links from their individual blurbs to other students’ pages
7. Every student is responsible for removing their own out-of-date pages
8. Everyone must add references to the Works Cited page using MLA format. Individual contributions should use in-text citation format – eg. (Smith 1991, 23). The year is not a regular MLA convention, but can be used to distinguish multiple works by the same author in a way that is neater and cleaner than quoting part of the title.
9. Image citations: write— Image: http://restofurl.com (or use MLA if image is not from the web).