Common Authoring Tasks

This article describes and demonstrates several of the most common editing tasks performed on Oregon.gov web pages.

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As work is performed on a page, it is important to remember to check the page in regularly. We recommend checking in work any time the workstation is left. This would include work and restroom breaks, lunch breaks, calls to other duties like meetings and of course, at the end of the day. Frequent check ins are insurance against lost work.

Fonts, Sizes and Colors

Adjusting fonts, font sizes, font colors and page template colors may result in unfavorable accessibility results. Much effort has been placed on ensuring a very high degree of accessibility in the page layouts. If an opportunity for improved accessibility is found, please bring it to the attention of the Oregon E-Government Service Desk for consideration.

Tables

If a table is to be used, consider using the Data Tables web part. HTML tables are hard to maintain for most casual authors and even harder to maintain in an accessible manner. The Data Tables web part takes care of styling, accessibility and even has filtering, searching and sorting as built in features whereas HTML tables are simple flat content with no featuring.

Images

Where images are used, they should be reduced in both their memory and physical size to be web friendly. Make your images earn their way on to the page.

Copy and Paste

Please note that using 'Ctrl-v' or the right click paste command are the two methods to paste content into web pages. The paste menu that is referenced in the video may show up fairly high on the screen.

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