Difference between revisions of "Publishing Checklist"
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Revision as of 14:18, 25 September 2014
Publishing Checklist
Have you reviewed the following?
Pre-Joomla
Spell-check all text and double-check spellings of all names and double-check all facts
Run text through the smart quote cleaner
Format text cleanly in plain text document. Never paste in text copied from Word, Google Docs, Pages, RTF (rich text) or any other document other than simple plain text.
Copy only the text, with no extra line breaks at top or bottom
Working in Joomla
Insert using the plain text icon
Metadata: Keywords (these are words that someone is likely to use when searching for the article in Google)
Metadata: Description (this is usually copied from the lede with quotation marks removed after pasting in to the little window)
AP style (short version, long version)
Headline format
Introtext/Lede (40 words or less)
Proper paragraphing for lede and body text; reminder that our content editor/WYSIWYG
Good quality image from an official source, cropped to the right size (600x400 for most articles)
Image credit and/or caption: nameofsite.com
Tags
Proper linking for important words or phrases, using converted URLs for internal KDHX links
Proper semantic linking (do not just paste in a raw URL to your text)
Proper attribution for outside source material
Preview work before publishing