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Formatting Your Submissions
The Web noxious team greatly appreciates you taking the time to read through this information before submitting content or site updates. When you follow these guidelines, we are able to turn your project around more quickly and, because the work will take less time to complete, this translates into less cost for you.
Short Submissions (one paragraph or less; no formatting edits)
The ideal format submission of short text submissions or changes is plain text—either in a .txt document or within the body of a text e-mail.
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Long Submissions (more than one paragraph or containing formatting edits)
If you have several changes to submit, or your changes contain formatted elements such as bolding, font color changes, or links, please send the requested changes in a numbered list in the body of rich text or HTML e-mail or as a Word attachment (that is, a document in .doc format). Please divide the changes by page. Sample submission
We especially appreciate submissions that start with the exact URL of the page(s) to which the changes apply. When pages are identified in this way, it eliminates confusion and costs you less. |
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While we are happy to type in your content manually from a hard copy (faxed or sent by mail), we do it at our standard hourly rate. Please send a file in PDF only if the file is to be posted for visitors to download. PDF is not good for submitting site updates because the text is not easily editable.
If you prefer to work in Word, you might find it easiest to copy the text off the actual web page you are submitting changes for, paste into a new Word document, and make your changes directly into the pasted text. Remember to include the exact URL of the page, which you can copy and paste from the address bar.
Please note that we do not use Word as an HTML editor—we strip any formatting and coding from Word-based documents before placing the content within the web page. This is because the HTML coding used in Word contains not only code needed by the browser, but code needed by Microsoft Office. This can greatly increase the length of the code and prevent spiders from thoroughly mapping your site.* Please save any updates you are working on in Word as .doc, not .html.
*Note: Newer versions of Word allow the user to save the page as a web page without the extra coding. You can do this by going to File/Save As, then saving your document as type Web Page, Filtered. However, the likelihood is that the content will still need to be stripped of coding and revised for the web, so please avoid this format for your submissions.
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Graphics
We prefer graphic types JPG, GIF, PNG, and PSD. Images in other formats will be converted. Avoid submitting graphics, including logos, in a Word attachment. Once a graphic is inserted into Word, separation is difficult and causes loss of image quality.
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Compression
Please zip (compress) your files if you are sending more than 5 MB of data at one time.
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Recommended Software Formats
Due to the popularity of certain software programs, we recommend using the following formats for the listed uses:
Recommended Software Formats
Need |
Use |
Extension/
Doc Type |
Notes |
| Downloadable spreadsheet data or data needed for web site database population |
Excel (Microsoft) |
.xls |
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| Documents for the web site visitor to print. |
Acrobat (Adobe) |
.pdf |
Please try to save in v4.0 or older. If you use a newer PDF version, please tell us so that we can post a link for those who need to download a newer version of Acrobat Reader in order to view the file. |
| Slideshows for viewing online or downloading |
PowerPoint (Microsoft) |
.ppt |
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| Changes or additions to site content that do not need to indicate formatting changes. |
Text format |
.txt |
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| Changes or additions to site content, downloadable documents with editable regions. |
Word or WordPad (Microsoft) |
.doc, .rtf |
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Sample Submission
FAQs page
http://www.webnoxious.com/faqs.htm
1. Please add FAQ titles Formatting Your Submission and Search Engine Optimization.
2. Actual text of FAQs is in attached documents, formatting.doc and seo.doc, for new pages.
Web Professionals FAQ
http://www.webnoxious.com/faqs/webprofessional.htm
Change first paragraph to:
If you had to grow your own grain and grind it into flour before making bread, or make gas out of crude oil before you could drive, you probably wouldn’t get much of your own work done. The same is true for web development. The more time you spend learning how to write web code or design web-friendly graphics, the less time you can spend doing what you do best. Not only that, but you’d have to spend hundreds—or even thousands—of dollars to purchase the wide array of web development software used by professionals.
Contact Page
http://www.webnoxious.com/contact.htm
Please correct spelling of street name to Glenmoor from Glenmore.
Curriculum Vitae
http://www.webnoxious.com/aboutcv.htm
Reorder CV so that newest is at top within each section of CV.
Services
http://www.webnoxious.com/services.htm
Please change Web Site Redesign section to read:
Businesses often approach Web noxious for help renovating their existing web site. As with web sites we create from scratch, site redesigns go through our initial bid process. We look closely at the purpose of the web site, which may have changed since the site was first created; we look at the tone the client wants the site to give visitors; and so on. In short, we look at all the characteristics and elements of the web site. Please refer to the FAQ "How Do I Get Started?"
Specials
(new page)
1. Add page for posting specials.
2. Create printable coupon graphic offering free hour of updates. |
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