Best Practices for Using the CMS

Use Mozilla Firefox as Your Browser

The CMS runs more consistently when using Mozilla Firefox as your browser. There is no charge to download Mozilla Firefox. There are known problems when using Internet Explorer.

Do not copy and paste text directly from an email, from another website, or from a document such as a Word Document or a PDF. Please copy it to a text editor first, such as Notepad or TextEdit, to convert it to plain text before copying it into the CMS. This way you will not inherit any typographic styles that conflict with the styles in the CMS. It will keep your HTML code clean.

Use JPGs for photos and GIFs for graphics (logos, cartoons, etc.)
Make sure images are the ACTUAL SIZE before using them on a page. Do not try to resize images simply by typing in different dimensions of the image in the CMS.
Make sure images have a resolution of 72dpi (dots per inch.)

Use relevant text for links. Do not use words like "click here," "go to this page," "home," etc.
Good: See our driving directions.
Bad: See our driving directions here.
Links to documents that launch applications, such as PDFs, MOVs, and DOCs, should open in a new window and be labeled [.pdf] or [.mov] or [.doc] in the link. Example: Watch Professor Smith’s Lecture [.mov]
Links to an external website (i.e., a website that is outside of your own website) should open up in a new window.