Text Formatting
The Case web template has examples for most types of content, and is designed
to look consistent across all departments in the division, as well as the entire
university. It is also designed to be compliant with applicable
regulations for accessibility (known as section 508). Only minimal
formatting should be required on your part.
These are the types of formatting you will typically need to apply to your
content:
- Use of headlines H5 and H6 for section
headings
- Use of bold, italic, and underline in normal text for emphasis
- Changing the font color to the color used in your site's theme
- Changing the font color to a specific useful color (e.g. red
for a warning message)
- Changing the background color of a headline
or table cell to a shade of your theme color
- Justification of text (right, center, left) in a table cell
- Superscript and subscript
These types of formatting should be avoided:
- Changing the font face
- Changing the font size
- Use of bold, italic, and underline to mimic the look of a section
heading
- Changing the font color to arbitrary colors
- Changing the background color of arbitrary objects
- Changing the background color to a color other than your site's theme
- Justification (right or center) of headings
- Justification (right or center) of page text
- Using the RETURN key to create line breaks
- Using the SPACE BAR to position text on the screen
If your document requires excessive formatting to look "the way it is
supposed to look", recreating it on a web page may not be the right approach.
Instead an existing document can be converted to PDF and posted on the site.
This is generally the case with signs, brochures and forms.