IMPORTANT NOTE TO THE WRITERS:

All writers are hereby requested to follow these following guidelines before uploading [your] articles on the website:

1. Write/ put your ready-to-edit articles on Microsoft Word Online or Google Document with corresponding Title (on the title tab of the online document) and photos you wish to insert in the article
   • Title/s of the articles are subject to be edited/revised as deemed necessary
   • In an effort to minimize the media upload on the website, all photos that the writer wishes to include in the article are subject for approval; hero pic/s (guidelines below) are most needed. Please upload a maximum of 8-10 images for every article.
2. Send the link of your draft to corpcomm@asti.dost.gov.ph
3.  Wait for the confirmation response that your article is ready for uploading on the website
   • Please note that most of the writers' role is set to Writer I so you can only save the article as Draft.
4. Lastly, send another message to Corp Comm (same  thread) that you have already saved your article on the website
5. Publication of articles is subject to Corp Comm's schedule discretion

Article Guidelines

In order to standardize how articles are written and published especially for online articles, DOST-ASTI's Corporate Communication Unit came up with article guidelines/style guide for writers' reference.  Please follow the guidelines below for creating your articles:

Article Title Headline

• Use title capitalization only for nouns and small capitalization for verbs and other parts of the title/headline, i.e.
  • Instead of
    • DOST-ASTI Ground Receiving Station Antenna Capped With Radome
  • Use
    • DOST-ASTI Ground Receiving Station Antenna capped with Radome

Breadcrumb

• Add the breadcrumb widget
  • Video Tutorial on how to add the breadcrumb widget:
    
    
• Steps:
  • Click the wrench icon on the main content panel/ live editor
    • On the "row styles", click "Attributes"
    • Then insert "textcontent" on the "Row Class"
    • On the bottom right, click "Done"
  • Go back to the main content panel/live editor
    • On the top left part, click the "gear button"
    • Select "Breadcrumb NavXT"
    • On the Breadcrumb NavXT widget, change the "Output trail as "Plain"
    • On the bottom right, click "Done
  • On the widgets panel, drag the "Breadcrumb NavXT" to the top, ideally (and usually) before the SiteOrigin Editor widget
  • MAKE SURE TO REMOVE ALL the "textcontent" found on the Widget Styles--> Attributes --> Widget Class on other widgets (specifically in the SiteOrigin Editor and Breadcrumb)

Hero Pic

• Upload/insert a hero pic/image as the first element of the article, before any article text.
  • Depending on the nature of the article, writers can also put a headline content before the hero pic. This is subject to CorpComm's consideration/perception.
• The hero pic should be representative of what the article is about.

DOST-ASTI and other acronyms

• Use DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) instead of Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI).
• Use DOST-ASTI instead of ASTI.
• For other DOST agencies follow the same rule, i.e. DOST-PAGASA, DOST-PCIEERD, DOST Region I, DOST Region II, etc.
• On the first mention of any acronym in the article, use the complete title and establish the acronym of all entities. Writers may then use the acronym afterwards for the rest of the article, i.e.  Philippine Earth Data Resource and Observation (PEDRO) Center and then PEDRO for the rest of the article.

R&D Project

• Use “R&D project” instead of just “project”, i.e.
  • Instead of
    • Established under the Philippine Earth Data Resource and Observation (PEDRO) Center project, …
  • Use
    • Established under the Philippine Earth Data Resource and Observation (PEDRO) Center R&D project, …

Hyperlinks

• Create a hyperlink for DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) and DOST-ASTI linking it to the main DOST-ASTI home page www.asti.dost.gov.ph.
• Create a hyperlink for each mention of the R&D project name and its acronym, i.e.
  • Philippine Earth Data Resource and Observation (PEDRO) Center and PEDRO links to the R&D project page https://asti.dost.gov.ph/projects/pedro-center/
  • Deployment of Early Warning System and DEWS links to the R&D project page https://asti.dost.gov.ph/projects/dews/
  • Computing and Archiving Research Environment (CoARE) and CoARE links to the R&D project page https://asti.dost.gov.ph/projects/coare/
  • Development of the Department of Energy Information System Critical Energy Installation Information System (DOE CEIIS) and DOE CEIIS links to the R&D project https://asti.dost.gov.ph/projects/doe/
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and UAV links to the R&D project https://asti.dost.gov.ph/projects/uav/
  • Etc…
• Please test all the hyperlinks used in the article, i.e. R&D project page, social media site, email addresses, etc.

Opening Pages / Browser Tabs

• In the article, set hyperlink behavior with regard to opening the page in the browser to:
  • Internal hyperlinks, i.e. those links within asti.dost.gov.ph
    • Should open on the same browser tab.
    • In this case you may just copy-paste the “asti.dost.gov.ph/…“ link and use it as is.
  • External hyperlinks, i.e. those links outside of asti.dost.gov.ph
    • Should open on a new browser tab
    • You can enable the external hyperlinks to open in a new tab by changing the target window of the link when attaching it to the word/s. Simply click insert link button in the toolbar and an action box will pop. Change the target from “None” to “New window”.
  • For more info please refer to
    • https://www.thesitewizard.com/html-tutorial/open-links-in-new-window-or-tab.shtml

• The above browser page opening guide is to maximize the time visitors spend in our site by keeping open the original browser tab they used to open a DOST-ASTI article/page.

To the authors of the articles created and published before the launch of the new DOST-ASTI website (WordPress version) last December 2018 kindly edit/revise the articles to conform to the above guidelines.