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| Section 3.0: Guidelines |
3.0 GuidelinesThe following guidelines cover two main areas: the “mechanics” of good Web site design and recommendations for topics to cover. Section 3.1 Web site Mechanics, will discuss technical issues such as font size, how to effectively organize a Web site and how to use (or, more precisely, how not to misuse) color and graphics. Section 3.2 Topics, is a discussion on the most frequently encountered subjects found on city and county Web sites in Minnesota and the United States. After studying how other Web sites are constructed, these topics were found to represent a “minimum” set of topics that a city or county public works Web site should address in order to be effective. The list is by no means exhaustive, but it should provide a basis for evaluating existing sites and perhaps a starting point for new Web sites. Some of the topics may have already been presented earlier in this document. Since the Guidelines were designed for a number of different audiences, those topics are worth repeating here, either to reinforce their importance, or with the anticipation that readers with some experience with the Web publishing cycle may have skipped earlier sections. Section 3.1 Web Site MechanicsSection 3.2 Topics
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