The following guidelines are based on best practice and practical experience. They are designed to guide all people involved with providing and publishing announcements as they cooperatively work together to maximise the value and effectiveness of the announcement.

Announcements

  • have a start and end date
  • be relevant to the majority of users they will appear for
  • only appear for a maximum of one week per showing (if needed they may show for a week, hide for a week, show for a week)

Announcement headings

  • be 30 visible characters or less (including spaces, not including HTML markup)
  • clearly indicate the general topic area

Announcement text

  • be 200 characters or less
  • provide links to additional information if possible/appropriate
  • should use basic text formatting ("<em>", "<strong>", "<abbr>") only
  • can use bulleted lists where appropriate
  • avoid acronyms (and must not use acronyms some users will not understand)
  • should not display the URL or path of links as part of the visible text
  • cannot include images
  • cannot use colour

Timing and positioning of announcements

All new announcements will be added at the top and gradually moved down as newer announcements are added. This maximises the freshness and effectiveness of announcements. Announcements should be requested for a maximum duration of 1 week unless there is a specific need for them to run longer.

Requestor details
Announcement details

If you want a link in your announcement, include comments above providing the link URL and detailing the words from the 'Text' of the announcement above to use as the text of link. The text of a link needs to be descriptive. 'Click here' is not descriptive.

If you need to provide other information about the text of the announcement include it in the comments above.

If you have additional comments not specifically about the text of the announcement provide those in the 'Additional comments' section below.

Desired timing
Show from 1am on this date
Stop showing at 11pm on this date

  • Announcements are scheduled to start displaying at 1am on the start date.
  • Announcements are scheduled to stop displaying at 11pm the end date.
  • If you would like alternate start or end times please discuss your requirements in the 'Comments' area below.

Additional comments
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