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Class Descriptions and Presentations
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something we don't?!
If you have an idea for a Web-related training that we don't do, but you could do, contact us! We'd love to hear your idea and how it might fit into our suite of Web trainings.
If you're new to EPA Web development, we recommend that you start with Web 101 - it will explain many aspects of EPA Web pages before you get into specific standards, writing guidance, etc.
These courses are designed for EPA employees, their support contractors, cooperative agreement holders, or others who work on Web pages with EPA. Which training is for me?
Individual Courses
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| How to complete Required web metadata | Writers, Reviewers |
| What Goes Into a Redesigned Web Site | Coders, Writers, Reviewers |
| EPA Web Standards | Coders, Writers, Reviewers |
| Writing for the Web | Coders, Writers, Reviewers |
| Section 508, Accessibility and Web Design | Coders, Reviewers |
| Template 4, Training on EPA styles, best coding practices and Jquery | Coders |
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How to complete Required web metadata (one 1-hour session)
Audience: Writers, Reviewers.
Description: We will cover the use of the 6 required HTML metadata fields and the 4 required PDF metadata fields. This training will help you write good web metadata.
The required metadata fields are:
| HTML | |
|---|---|
| Title ("DC.title") | Title |
| Description ("DC.description") | Description (Subject) |
| Publisher ("DC.creator") | Publisher (Author) |
| Keywords | Keywords |
| Channel ("DC.Subject.epachannel") | |
| Content Type ("DC.type") |
Cost: Free.
What Goes Into a Redesigned Web Site (90 minute class)
This class presents a checklist of items that's needed to complete a site update for EPA.gov. As we move to restructuring the web site into a topic based site, we will begin focusing on common site goals. This class will go over the goals and the expected outcomes of redesign effort.
Goals for EPA.gov redesigns
- Reflect user-centric content
- Improve the writing of relevant content to specific audiences
- Reduce redundant, outdated and trivial content
Note: You can not just move existing content into template 4.
Redesigning an EPA Site Slideshow (40 pp, 1.27MB, about PDF)
EPA Web Standards (one 90 minute session)
Audience: Coders, Writers, Reviewers.
Description: You need to understand EPA Web standards whether you are an EPA employee making your own pages, a contractor creating pages, or a reviewer of EPA pages.
- Web Procedures
- Standard look and feel
- Web Standards
Cost: Free
Writing for the Web (one 1-hour session)
Audience: Coders, Writers, Reviewers.
Description: EPA's web content needs to be written in plain direct language. This training will help you write improved web content targeted to your audience. This training will help you understand how to:
- Identify your audiences
- Figure out what they want to know and how they look for it
- Create Web-friendly words, phrases, sentences, links and captions
- Design paragraphs, pages and sites that serve your audiences
- Resources and examples
- Web Content Writing Requirements
Cost: Free.
Section 508, Accessibility and Web Design (one 1½-hour session)
Audience: Coders, Reviewers.
Description: This course outlines Section 508 accessibility background, requirements, and provides lots of examples of ways to address a variety of situations.
- Overview of accessibility requirements
- Specific things to watch for when designing EPA Web pages
- How to write good alt text
- Accessibility and PDF
- Where to get more information and examples for doing your own coding.
See also: EPA Web Standards
Cost: Free
Presentation: PowerPoint | Screen reader simulation
Related: the 16 requirements | the Access Board page