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Final steps - Effective Digital Content

This three minute video sums up everything that's been covered in the Effective Digital Content course.

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Chunking your content - Effective Digital Content

This three and a half minute video explains the importance of breaking your digital content into manageable chunks.

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Reviewing and revising your content - Effective Digital Content

This three and a half minute video emphasises that your website is never finished, and explains some things you can do to keep a grip on your content.

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Link placement - Effective Digital Content

This four and a half minute video shows how the placement of links when designing web content can help you to control the user journey and not overwhelm your users with choice.

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Findable, fact-based content - Effective Digital Content

This two and a half minute video explains why good web writing is good SEO, and how fact-based content is more effective than marketing speak.

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Who are your users and how do they access your content? - Effective Digital Content

This two and a half minute video gets you thinking about the people using your website, what they need and what devices they might be using.

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Write clearly, in Plain English - Effective Digital Content

This four minute video explains why you should write like you talk, avoiding jargon, acronyms and waffle.

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Objectives - Effective Digital Content

This four and a half minute video encourages you to think about what you want from your digital content - what your users need, and how meeting these needs can save you time.

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Style Guide - Effective Digital Content

This two minute video introduces the University Web Style Guide, explaining how it works and where you can find it.

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Link text - Effective Digital Content

This six and a half minute video explains some of the most important web writing you'll do - crafting link text.

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Readable web addresses - Effective Digital Content

This two minute video shows how to create URLs that are user-friendly, search engine-friendly, and compliant with University policy.

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Subheadings - Effective Digital Content

This three and a half minute video tells you how and where to use subheadings to better help your users.

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Summaries and page titles - Effective Digital Content

This three minute video tells you how to use your page title and summary to best effect.

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Accessibility and readable text - Effective Digital Content

This seven minute video discusses some important accessibility considerations when uploading images and video content, including alt text and subtitles.

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GDPR and web content - Effective Digital Content

This five and a half minute video discusses considerations around data management in web content, including Data Protection and Retention of Information.

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Sourcing images

This three minute video discusses the use of images on your web content: how to find them and make sure you have the right to use them, and what makes a good image. Part of 'Images and the…

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