SpokenMedia Website Style Guide

Here are some style guidelines for the SpokenMedia website:

• When in doubt, look at older posts to see what style has been used in the past
• You could also ask! 😛

Blog Posts

• Do have descriptive post titles
• Do “Write tight”–don’t use superfluous wording, try not to use overly complex sentences
• Do use these style conventions:
  • Major section headings: <h3>
  • Minor section headings: <h4>
  • Line/horizontal rule: <hr />
  • Images: Include alt and caption text, and attribution <div id="sm-citation">Person</Optional Site Name</div>
  • Flickr/Twitter Attribution: <div id="sm-citation">Photo Credit: @username/sitename</div>, link to image at Flickr

  For example:

  

  Photo Credit: @theolynn/Twitter

  Brandon Showing the Player

• Do include citation for all of our presentations we post to the site, they should be centered and use <div id="sm-citation-left">...</div>. For example:
  Opening Up IIHS Video with SpokenMedia

  View more presentations from Brandon Muramatsu.

  Cite as: Muramatsu, B., McKinney, A. & Wilkins, P. (2010, May 5). Opening Up IIHS Video with SpokenMedia. Presentation at OCWC Global 2010: Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5, 2010. Retrieved May 6, 2010 from Slideshare Web site: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/opening-up-iihs-video-with-spokenmedia

• Do split long articles with the <!--more--> tag. The convention I used was to include the objective/introduction before the tag, and the details after the tag
• Do spellcheck and edit your work. WordPress has a built in spell checker, use it!
• If you change something in the style, you should go back through older posts and make sure they’re consistent. I know this can be a pain, but it helps maintain site consistency.

Presentations Page

• Use a APA-formatting for references
• Include links to an online copy of the paper and/or presentation
• If there’s a presentation, upload it to Slideshare.net and also upload the raw format, a PDF format and a PDF format with notes (if you have them for the slides).
• Sample formatting of the links: [ Presentation: Slideshare, PowerPoint, PDF, PDF with Notes || Paper: PDF, DOC ]