These guiding principles are intended to inform all aspects of creating and managing BCIT websites and other digital content, including:
- Best practices for content design and usability
- Techniques for optimizing the performance of your website
- Accessibility requirements and considerations, and
- Our obligations concerning website security and protecting users’ data.
About the principles
The following principles provide a framework for designing content that is easy for our community to find, understand, and use. Follow them when building or revising your web content:
Tools and resources
BCIT has a number of resources that can help you improve your digital content, including:
- User Experience (UX) Guide
- Writing Style Guide and key communications contacts (in SharePoint)
- BCIT Web Content Contributor Community team in Teams
- KB articles on WordPress
About our services
The digital content team, based in IT Services (ITS), supports a community of School and department users to create and maintain content in WordPress—BCIT’s content management system. We partner with Marketing and Communications, the Registrar’s Office, the Schools, and other stakeholders to ensure high-profile content meets our strategic goals.
We offer a variety of services, including:
- Training in WordPress, support tools, and web best practices
- Content design and optimization
- User consultation
- Website hosting
- Analytics reporting
- User experience testing and research