There are a few things common amongst all BC web pages that should be included in your pages as well.  These items include common banners, left navigation rules, header text, content and image width, fonts and writing standards as explained earlier in this document.

• Your ‘Community’ should have a common banner above the content area.  If you community is ‘Automotive’, you’ll notice all the pages that relate to this area have the following banner above them:
  
  
  
• Left navigation rules include using short well descriptive words to describe the web pages content.  Try not to let your navigation go to a second line, as this disrupts the flow of your left navigation.  The ‘Observer’ community has a good example of a left nav:
    
• It is good practice to include a page name at the top of every page you create.  This is to help the reader always know where they are.  This header text should be just beneath the banner and should be written the same way as it is described on the left navigation.
      
  
  
• The content area of the website has a limited width of 570 pixels.  Pixels are the technical name for the number of screen dots it takes to measure the width of a computer screen.  The Automotive banner above is exactly 570 pixels in width and can be a good measure for how wide your content area is.  The image used below is roughly 150 pixels wide and accents the page’s content well.  Please do not use extra large pictures as they will make the page extra wide and it will look unprofessional.  Images should be no wider than 270 pixels, which is just under half of the content areas width.
  
  Rule of thumb:  Images should not be wider than 270 pixels.
  
  Here is a good example of content in the space provided…