Design Guidelines: Writing Pages With Instructions and Templates

• The general guidelines used to set up this WWW domain are based on the Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual. However, there is an important difference: we prefer to create longer, flat linear documents rather than breaking the document into chunks. More detail is given in Gareth's style guide and in the creating Netscape Sites
  • An Example of our design is the The Monte Carlo Model: PC-Implementation report.
• The title given at the top of the page should be the same as the HTML Document Head Information (<Title>). The title should be made as descriptive of the document as possible so that search engines can find documents easier and more accurately.
• Terms or concepts which have their own descriptive or unique page in the domain should be referenced (linked) to their descriptive pages the first time that they are mentioned in the document (examples for this particular page are "instructions" and "templates") so that readers will get a more precise definition of the term when they click on the word.
• Use the Hyperlink bookmark function to link the "Home" button on the Linkbar to the corresponding section on the Home Page so that when the link occurs, the reader will be taken to the place on the home page where the link came from.