Post-Midterm Clean-Up List

Typography

  1. Main text appears on brightest area of page
  2. Base font for your site is sans-serif (e.g., Verdana)
  3. Font-size is not too big or too small (around 11-12px or .9-1em for Verdana)
  4. Text in vertical menus, lists, and general page content is not centered
  5. Text has a suitable line-height, greater than 100%.

Image Use

  1. Images, whenever possible, are your own and not "borrowed"
  2. Images retain their original proportions, thus are not squashed or stretched or otherwise distorted
  3. Images do not display at a size greater than the original, thus are not blurry
  4. Images are not too small; images need to be big enough to show what they need to show
  5. Images are next to, immediately below, or otherwise near to the text that refers to them
  6. All non-purely decorative images have captions and, when not your own, source information
  7. Images acquired online identify and link to their source sites in the caption or in a source not clearly visible on the page
  8. The linked source site is not Google Images but the original source site

Home Page

  1. The topic and purpose of your site is clear from the Home Page and/or Intro Page
  2. Essential home page content – focal image or pattern, main links, text – fits within the "safe area" of your design.

General Design

  • Banner and sitenav on every page
  • Sitenav is consistent (same order, same location, same appearance) on all pages (exc. possibly HP)
  • Each page has an informative title in its title tag: e.g., Book Review of Space Aliens: Our Best Friends by James Xeno
  • Lists exhibit parallel structure (as does this one)
  • The CRAP principles are being followed
  • Your book review is at least 900 words – EXCLUDING blockquotes, sub-headers, pull quote, captions.
  • Local links (sitenav, image src) are RELATIVE

    • Coding

    1. All menus (nav, links) are lists
    2. All pages link to a single external CSS file
    3. The center tag is avoided.
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