HTML Guidelines

In a hypertext environment, you are not constrained to write in a strictly linear fashion. The ability to embed links connecting different documents or parts of documents allows for a very different way of organizing your material. In addition, you are developing material primarily for online reading, rather than downloading and printing.

If you are creating a new document or set of documents for Hamilton-Wentworth CommunityNet, here are some things to consider before you start.

1. Keep your documents short. Three screens (pages) is a lot to read online.
2. It is better to create many short documents that are linked together, rather than one long document.
3. Give your links clear, descriptive names (not 'here').
4. On every document, make sure the reader has a link back to a Table of Contents or a beginning, both at the top and the bottom of the document.
5. Plan your work so that it can be navigated in different ways, to meet the needs of different readers.
6. Identify each document with a descriptive title.
7. Put in a matching <a href ="mailto:ip###@hwcn.org"> and </a> link on the bottom of every page so you can receive feedback on your work and so you can be contacted for information
8. Put in navigation links at the bottom of the page.  Specifically a link to the Hamilton-Wentworth CommunityNet homepage.