Best Practices Tutorial

Redirects point from one URL to another. This is important to ensure that, when a page is deleted in favor of a new one, old links will still function.

As a website editor, one of your main responsibilities is to ensure that the content on your site is easy to navigate and provides a seamless user experience. One way to accomplish this is by implementing best practices for links on your web pages.

Guidelines for how to best use heading elements h1 through h6 to structure your content for accessibility and SEO

Social media shares increase Mason’s digital impact by connecting with potential new visitors and improving a news item’s search engine ranking.  Even if you have no distribution plans of your own, web content is highly shareable, and one can’t predict which stories will be shared by your readers.

The text here will display as the search engine result snippet. This text is the item's 'elevator speech', a one-sentence highlight of your content.

SiteMasonry's versioning workflow allows content to be modified in an un-published Draft state without changing the publically viewable (Published) version of the page or content item (news item, profile, or program)

George Mason University is committed to ensuring an inclusive digital experience. Both the SiteMasonry and Mason WordPress themes comply with Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA standards. One essential practice to maintain accessibility is adding descriptive alt text to images.

SiteMasonry’s Webform builder helps Site Owners easily create and add forms to a web page. Collecting Personal Identifiable Information (PII), documents or images? Contact ITS for access to the Qualtrics secure form building tool.