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 Optimising page title, summary and meta tags for search engines guide.
Note: using unique summary and introduction copy is much better for SEO than using the same copy for both.
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.
Note: Look for other obsolete text, like ‘open/close all’ prompts that no longer function on vic.gov.au.
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 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 Add a document guide.
Read Add an image guide.
Style guide
The Victorian Government uses:
the Australian Government Style Manual for decisions about grammar, usage, structure and referencing
the Macquarie Dictionary for spelling (VPS can access this through the Victorian Government Library Service).
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’.
Update the author by typing the name of the key content owner or contact and selecting their CMS user account.
Key resources
Accessibility and quality
To avoid publishing delays make sure each page meets Vic Gov accessibility and quality standards.