SF.gov newsletter

August 2022, end-of-month edition

Hi SF.gov editors,

Happy almost-fall! Or rather, summer in SF is finally approaching! 🌞 Hope you all can stay cool this weekend.

GET HELP

Training and support

Our current schedule: 

• PDF training — Thursday, September 8, 11 am to noon (bonus session!)

• Choosing a content type — Thursday, September 15, 11 am to noon (bonus session!)

• Publishing on SF.gov (the basics) — First and third Wednesday, 11 am to noon
• Introduction to SF.gov — Second Wednesday, 11 am to noon
• Writing for SF.gov — Fourth Wednesday, 11 am to noon

Sign up for office hours every Tuesday at 10 am if you want to talk through any content questions you have.

You can always ping us on Teams if you have a question.

After you register, you'll get a confirmation email with an .ics file. This email may be in your "Other" inbox.

You'll have to click on the .ics file to add the event to your calendar.

NEW FEATURES

What's new for editors

Profiles can now display pronouns

In our efforts to be inclusive, SF.gov now supports pronouns on profile pages.

To add a pronoun to a profile page, go to a user’s profile and under “Last name” there is a new field labelled “Pronouns.” Pronouns will be displayed on the profile page.

We've also fixed a number of profile-related bugs. They should be good go when adding them to public bodies!

Coming soon

We're continuing to work on combining department and public body content types, so that public bodies will be easier and more flexible to use.

We’re also improving a handful of accessibility issues, and translation editing.

WINS!

Latest launches

The Office of Economic and Workforce Development is entirely on SF.gov! They redirected all their old pages today. Woohoo!

DID YOU KNOW?

Today's publishing tip

Front load your title with key words

Have the most important and distinct words at the beginning of your page title. Make it clear what people can do on the page.

This is especially important for search result pages. People skim on the web, they don't read every word carefully.

Search results also cut off long titles. That's why we have a 65-character limit on most page titles on SF.gov.

✅  Do for page titles

Get a marriage license

Register a new business

Apply for housing

 ❌ Don't do for page titles

About licenses for marriage

Certificate for Business Registration

Housing application

Hope to see you on Teams! Happy editing!

Thanks as always for being fantastic partners, getting services and information to all San Franciscans.

Anita, Persis, Sharon, and the SF.gov team

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