Page Comparison

After a content scrape, content will need to be reformatted.

‘Summary’ and ‘Introduction text’ fields

Summary and introduction text may need to be rewritten after a scrape.

If there is no summary text on the original page, the scrape auto-fills the summary field with the first line in the body text. This often doesn’t make sense in the new context and is always bad for SEO.

Read our Optimising page title, summary and meta tags for search engines guide.

Main content

Table of contents

Delete any table of content links or copy that have come across in the scrape. These will be broken links. If you would like to add a new table of contents read our Display a table of contents guide.

Links

Check that links have not been broken during the scrape. If a link leads to another page on vic.gov.au, replace the URL using the internal link system in the CMS. 

Read our Add a hyperlink to a webpage, email address or phone number guide.

Images and documents 

If there are images or valid documents in your content add them to the media library and embed them using the ‘Media’ icon in the basic text component. Hyperlinking documents will create dead links. 

Read our Add a document guide.

Read our Add an image guide.

Style guide

The Victorian Government uses:

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For Victorian Government-specific guidance, read the Victorian Government Style guide.

Common style issues

Incorrect style can cause publishing delays. Here are some tips based on common style issues:

• Use minimal and consistent capitalisation

• Use en dashes – like this – for parenthesis

• Use numerals for numbers 2 and up

• Get familiar with the 3 types of lists

• Use the % symbol rather than writing 'per cent'

• Don’t use Latin abbreviations such as e.g. or i.e.

Authoring information

During the scrape ‘Authored by’ in the ‘Authoring information’ dropdown to the right of the page will be listed as ‘sdp.devs’.

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