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Note

Ignore references to Gather (Content) as we no longer use this system.

HEADINGS IN GATHER

Add headings into fields (don’t rely on the field labels being used as headings).


PG PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME PAGE CONVENTIONS

About tab > Publications

You don’t need to duplicate documents used on the Study details page here.

Study details tab > What and how you’ll study

The most common headings we'll use are:

What you’ll study

How you’ll learn

Study details tab > Higher degrees

For content about PhDs, usually use this heading: Doing a PhD


PG TAB NAMES IN GATHER

Keep the programme part of the page/tab name short enough that the loaders can see which tab it is in the left hand menu.

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Try to put links at the end of blocks (or paragraphs/sentences if you can't get it at the end of the block)


PG QUOTES

Stand alone quotes (where you have a job title)

The programme has been extremely valuable. It transformed my ideas about the roles Information Managers can have. 

Flora Feltham, MIM 
Technical Assistant at Wellington City Archives

Stand alone quotes (where you don't have a job title)

Flora Feltham, MIM

Story attribution and People page

Flora Feltham
Master of Information Management 
Technical Assistant at Wellington City Archives

Note we can use three lines for attribution on People pages, but not on About.  On About, the middle line is treated as if it's an iwi and appears directly after the name, with dots.  ie:

James Smith. Ngati Kuhungungu.  So avoid it on About pages, unless you want to add iwi of course. 

NEW RULE - On PG pages we abbreviate generic quals and include the 'major'. For named quals we spell out the name. 


Quotes on About page:

Stephanie Butterfield, BCom(Hons) in International Business
Manager at EY


When they have no job title:

John Smith, Master of Business Administration 


When they name iwi:

Flora Feltham, Ngati Kahungungu, Ngati Porou
Master of Information Management student 


When they are a student:

Dora Fulton
Master of Arts student in Philosophy


Quotes on People page:

Stephanie Butterfield
BCom(Hons) in International Business
Manager at EY


John Smith
Master of Information Management
Manager at Kovac 


John Smith, Ngati Kahungungu, Ngati Porou
Master of Information Management
Analyst at Movac


Flora Feltham
Master of Information Management student


Dora Fulton
Master of Arts student in Philosophy




AT-A-GLANCE SUMMARY CARDS

The content for these is on Paul's Requirements of PG programmes pages, except the "essence statements”, which we write and record in the Programme name and intro text field on the Requirements tab.

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Find out more about accreditations and what they mean for you [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vbs/about/welcome/accreditation]”
[insert three logos from uploads box on Economics and Finance About page] 


Note
titleWarning: Style guide excerpts

Be sure to cross check the below against the current style guide.


QUOTES AND STORIES

Use the best quote you can find to illustrate/colour what you are writing about, regardless of whether you are using the person on the People and Stories page. 

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 This should be the approach regardless of whether the page has a mixture of stories with different approaches.  


Naming conventions for quotes and stories. 


HYPHENS

Use a hyphen when a noun follows:

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Their studio is state of the art. 


USE OF CAPITALS WHEN TALKING ABOUT SUBJECTS

Use caps when you are referring to anything which is an area of study or a subject. Use lower case when you are referring to the noun in a general sense.  It's true that sometimes it's not that clear which you are doing - in this case just use your best judgement!

eg

Geophysics explores the atmosphere and the ground beneath our feet—combining maths and physics with the outdoors. You'll get a solid grounding in the basics of Earth Sciences, Maths and Physics, and then choose to focus on either Meteorology or Solid Earth.

If you want to learn about the Earth and how it works, while working outdoors and honing your skills in maths and physics, Geophysics—Solid Earth is a good choice for you.


FUN FACTS - SOURCES

  1. We name sources for fun facts except those that don’t need it (eg the number of minutes it takes to walk somewhere)
  2. We include the date
  3. If there is a suitable site to link to, we just name the organisation the fact came from and then link to the page (or a pdf if necessary)
  4. If there is not a website, we include just the name of the organisation and the year,  or the publication as per APA style eg Tourism NZ, 2015, Tourism in Aotearoa Today (there will be very few if any of these)

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Number of working New Zealanders employed in the tourism industry

Tourism NZ, 2015 


One in fifteen

Number of working New Zealanders employed in the tourism industry

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The number of bacteria in a human approximately equals the number of cells in that body—about 30 to 50 trillion.

ScienceNews, 2016 


30 to 50 trillion

The number of bacteria in a human approximately equals the number of cells in that body—about 30 to 50 trillion. 

ScienceNews, February 6, 2016                 (if no link) 


Sources for rankings

We don't need to name the source when talking about the PBRF rankings. i.e. Victoria is top in NZ for research quality. (you must say research quality, not just research)

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I’ve had a chat to Tash about this and then Alida. I think you just carry on as you are and don’t reference the ranking except in fun facts. We haven’t done so in the past on the website re body copy and that information is there to find if people want to look for it. I also don’t think adding PBRF (or in full) adds a lot of value, as most people have no clue what this is either way (especially our main audience of school leavers).

Funfact example text

Number one  - Victoria University is ranked number one for overall research quality in Biomedical Science out of all New Zealand universities by the Performance Based Research Fund.

 

META DATA FOR PROGRAMME PAGES

From now on please write a 160 character meta description for the degree pages. Try to include explore Vic Uni now but if you don't have enough space cut it out.


CENTURIES

The style for the website is to use the numerals for centuries. (agreed with Elizabeth and Tania)

ie Explore 21st century art.......not Explore twenty-first century art.