I work with a higher ed web dev team. I am currently tasked with making a page with specific items that can assist our content developers when working on their area-specific web pages.

I have been browsing google, trying to dig my hands deep within the content but there is a lot out there. I have focused so far on: content, meta tags, links, and alt tags etc.

Could anyone provide additional items I should work with, or references to look into?

Greatly appreciated

Dani AI

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Good start — and good catch by about following standards. Since you already have the basics underway, make the authors' page a practical toolkit: ownership, repeatable templates, clear workflow, measurable checks, and quick test methods authors can use before they publish.

  • Ownership and review cadence: one owner per page, a visible "last reviewed" date, and a simple escalation path for stale content.
  • Page templates and field definitions: provide ready-made templates for program, news, event, and service pages with required vs optional fields.
  • Style and microcopy rules: headings hierarchy, voice and tone rules, allowed abbreviations, date/time formats and example phrasing.
  • Accessibility checks authors can run: contrast targets, keyboard tab order, captions/transcripts for media, and semantic heading structure.
  • Mobile expectations: priority content for small screens, headline length guidance, and examples of collapsed content patterns.
  • Multimedia and asset rules: preferred formats, max sizes, thumbnail rules, and where to host large files.
  • Structured data and discovery: require basic JSON-LD for key page types and document sitemap update responsibility.
  • Analytics and KPIs: who adds tracking, naming conventions for events, and what success looks like for each page type.
  • Publishing permissions and rollback plan: staging, peer review, accessibility signoff, publish, monitor, and an undo plan.
  • Quick QA checklist for authors: contact accuracy, external resources, image rendering, readability, and a mobile check.

Simple workflow to publish: 1) create draft from the right template; 2) run the automated checks (accessibility, performance, resource checker), then peer and compliance review; 3) push to staging, smoke-test, publish, and set a review reminder.

For tooling and examples, include links to guidance such as Lighthouse, schema.org, and axe by Deque so contributors can run quick validations.

You may want to check out the standards set by the W3C as these can help make your site(s) easier for users. This is also the ruling body for the Web. The alt tags are a good idea as some assistance software for disabled/impaired users will feed off of the alt text, etc.

I work with a higher ed web dev team. I am currently tasked with making a page with specific items that can assist our content developers when working on their area-specific web pages.

I have been browsing google, trying to dig my hands deep within the content but there is a lot out there. I have focused so far on: content, meta tags, links, and alt tags etc.

Could anyone provide additional items I should work with, or references to look into?

Greatly appreciated

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