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Template 3 Checklist
A checklist for formatting your Web pages with Template 3. (Checklist (MS-Word) (1 page, 29 Kb)) This checklist is most useful after you've read the documentation.
- Things you Only Need to Do Once
- Things you Must Do at Least Once
- Things to Do for Each Area
- Things to Do for Each Page
Things you Only Need to Do Once
- New pages only: Set your HTML editor to code with XHTML 1.0 strict, if able. (Dreamweaver 8 has this option. Dreamweaver 4 and MX do not.)
- Get the appropriate template(s) and save them to Templates subdirectory.
- For regional templates, add the regional tagline.
Things you Must Do at Least Once
- Read all the associated documentation.
- Take a template/CSS training class, if available.
Things to Do for Each Area
- If updating existing areas, back up your area template and site files.
- Open the new template file (.dwt or .html).
- Edit area name in the <title> element.
- Import local style sheet (if necessary).
- Put your area name in the lozenge.
- Set or delete Recent Additions link.
- Set Contact Us link to your Contact Us page.
- Edit search code with information for your area.
- Add your Area Footer if you have one, otherwise delete the placeholder text.
- Add your sidebar (area navigation) links. Do not use any break elements (<br />).
- Make the Contact Us link in the Global Footer point to your Contact Us page.
- Check your template against the "gotchas" list.
- [Dreamweaver] If this is a new area: Save the new template. When creating new pages, select the new template.
- [Dreamweaver] If you're updating existing pages: Save the new template with the name of your existing area template and apply it to the pages that use it. (You may have to try more than one process to update all pages that use that template.)
Things to Do for Each Page
Required
- If this page is an area home page, change "sitewidec" to "sitewideb".
- For existing pages, replace current formatting for the breadcrumbs with the <li> element.
- Edit appropriate metadata items.
Recommended
- Update the code in the content div (<div="content">) section to use XHTML. (Note: EPA pages will need to be in XHTML for the move to a CMS.)
- Format the <title> tag in accordance with EPA title tag standard. (Existing pages only. New pages must follow the standard.)
- Fine tune metadata tags on individual pages.
- For existing pages, clean up your markup. Use available CSS styles from the master style sheet and remove layout tables.