Drupal Reminders
When to Unpublish or Archive a Webpage
There are two options to choose from when you want to remove a page from the live site. You can either unpublish the page or archive the page. In both cases, it will not be visible to the public. Anyone that visits the link for the page will receive a 404 error in their internet browser.
Unpublish: You should use the Unpublish option if a page needs to be taken down temporarily (generally to make updates to it). You can only access this option from the bulk change function on the node listing page. This will take the page down from the live site, but keep it saved as a draft on the backend for editing.
Archive: You should use the Archive option if a page will eventually be deleted. This is intended to be a permanent change. The page can be restored if needed but the downside is that it must be published live again before it can be edited.
Using Tables
The web team recently worked on a DubBot report to fix tables that were missing a proper table heading row. This list of reminders was compiled based on that work:
- Do not use a table for page formatting. Tables are meant for displaying data only. For multi-column content, you should use the content row/column width setting, or reach out to UCM for page design input.
- Every table should have a Header Row (and sometimes a Header Column). This is set within the table design itself.
- Do not format column or row headers with the heading styles (like H2 or H3) or any other style (like bold). Styles are applied within our template.
Opening Links in New Tabs
Following website best practices, most of our website’s hyperlinks should open in the same window to keep users in the same tab. Exceptions where you should set a link to open in a new window (to provide ease of use to the viewer) are:
- opening or downloading a PDF
- media platforms like YouTube, PhotoShelter, or the Calendar of University Events
- forms like Qualtrics or Microsoft Forms
- non ohio.edu sites
If you are copying/pasting content from Microsoft Word or another source, please be aware that you may need to update the link behavior in the Drupal editor. It may set all links to open in a new window by default.
Update to Hide Page Title Label
