VIDEOS
All videos need titles. Only use a caption if you think it's needed to explain further. Keep them short and avoid using questions. Only use the name in the caption.
Use these kinds of titles as a guide:
Researching at Victoria’s Marine lab
Building games with industry experts
Studying where New Zealand law is made
Using IT to innovate
Caption - Professor Benoit Aubert, Head of School of Information Management, says organisational culture is the most important thing to enable innovation.
or if they don't quite work you can deviate.........
Fourth year student’s project— Too Crowded
Creativity in maths
TRIPLE CROWN
This block has been approved by the powers. You can tweak it slightly if you need to.
“You’ll be joining the Victoria Business School—one of just 72 business schools worldwide that hold the 'Triple Crown' of international business education accreditations. You can be confident your degree will stand up against the best around the world.
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]
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.
HOWEVER you need to have at least one quote on the Topic /About page that does link to the P and S page. Otherwise the reader may miss the P and S page altogether.
If your quote came from a story you are using on the People and Stories page - add the text [Full story] (in square brackets) after the attibution so they know to add this link.
All staff quotes must link to either the full story on People and Stories, or if you aren't using them there, link it to the staff profile. (choose the best one and copy the link in). An example is
Professor Peter Whiteford, Lecturer in Media Studies
[Linkto:http://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/about/staff/peter-whiteford] Staff profile
Remember to check whether the person has more than one staff profile and use the best one. Peter, for example, has a second that is empty except for contact details, despite it being the 'high' position.
All staff stories on the P and S pages must also link to their profile. This means that for a staff member quoted on the About page you might link to the full story and then from there to the profile.
HYPHENS
Use a hyphen when a noun follows:
an up-to-date collection
a state-of-the-art museum
BUT:
The collection is up to date.
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.
SOURCES FOR RANKINGS ETC
Usually you will mention the source of your potentially questionable fact in your text eg The Victoria School of Philosophy is rated as number one in the world by the QS World University Rankings.
However we have been making claims about rankings that aren't always particularly well backed up
eg Study at the philosophy school that's ranked number one in New Zealand for research.
If we are doing this we should add the source - eg Study at the philosophy school that's ranked number one in New Zealand for research by PRBF. (Tooltip - Performance-Based Research Fund—a government working group that assesses.........)