Web posting tips
From San Jose Bike Party Wiki
Posting to the sjbikeparty.org website? Follow these tips to keep everyone happy and the site working well!
- New ideas need new posts! Don't just change an old post to match your new plan - it will carry the old comments, old posting date, and old tags, and generally make a mess, not to mention that you'll be deleting necessary archive material. Just make a new post, it's easy!
- Keep edits minor and additive/positive - try not to take away valuable information that someone might be counting on.
- Make sure to categorize and tag your posts thoroughly and accurately - it's better to over-tag than under-tag, since it helps users navigate by cross-referenced pages. It's also important to stick to tags that already exist where possible - making new tags with slightly different spellings means no one will find your page by browsing.
- Make judicious use of images - every post looks better with an image, and alternating the left/right orientation of images between posts keeps the site visually engaging. Try not to make images too big so that they break the formatting, or too small so that they're hard to see.
- Link heavily! Link to other pages on the site, link to outside websites with useful information, etc. If every word is a link, you're going overboard, but if plenty of useful things are clickable in ways that will add content and value for users, everyone wins!
- Please proofread your posts for spelling and grammatical errors.
- Be concise and punchy: Ask yourself if there's a shorter or more powerful way to write what you just typed.
- When in doubt, save your post as a draft first, then ask other volunteers to review it before publishing it!
