{"id":1564,"date":"2016-03-30T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2016-03-24T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T16:52:41","slug":"a-quick-guide-to-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/03\/30\/a-quick-guide-to-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Guide to\u2026 Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help you keep track of the standards we use online \u2013 welcome to our quick guide to:<\/p>\n<h2>Lists<\/h2>\n<p>We like the use of lists online, they help you to break up large blocks of text on pages, by introducing white space. They also make your content instantly <strong>easy to understand<\/strong>, as they are <strong>quicker to scan read.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can choose between bulleted and numbered lists. Here are the rules for each type of list.<\/p>\n<h3>Bulleted Lists<\/h3>\n<p>For most pages we\u2019d recommend using bulleted lists. Make sure that you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>follow on from a <strong>colon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>start each point with a <strong>lowercase letter<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>don&#8217;t add punctuation<\/strong> at the end of a bullet point (or at the end of the list)<\/li>\n<li>use a <strong>minimum of three bullets<\/strong> but <strong>no more than six<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>begin with <strong>keywords<\/strong> and use <strong>bold for emphasis<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>keep each point <strong>short<\/strong> (not full sentences) \u2013 aim for <strong>up to 10 words<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Numbered Lists<\/h3>\n<p>Numbered lists are recommended to use only when you want to guide a user through steps or a &#8216;top 5&#8217;.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They <strong>don&#8217;t need<\/strong> to follow from a <strong>colon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Start each step with a <strong>capital letter.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>End each step with a full stop \u2013 each step <strong>should be a complete sentence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Next time we\u2019ll be covering introductions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help you keep track of the standards we use online \u2013 welcome to our quick guide to: Lists We like the use of lists online, they help you to break up large blocks of text on pages, by introducing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/03\/30\/a-quick-guide-to-lists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[40,26],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content","tag-editorial-style-guide","tag-writing-for-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}