Content Supply Guidelines
The guidelines below outline the formats we can accept content in. You can e-mail electronic files to us at projects@3Legs.com in PC format. E-mails should be kept as small as possible and we recommend an e-mail size of no larger than 4Mb. If the files you are supplying are larger than this you should send the files on floppy disk, 100mb or 250mb Zip Disk or CD in PC format. If you need to compress the files before sending them to us please use one of the following compression formats TAR, gzip, UUencode, XXencode, BinHex or MIME.
Mac OS X users can find details about archiving files at: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152
All content to be supplied by the client should be provided promptly and in accordance with these guidelines to ensure that the development schedule is maintained. It is important that these guidelines are followed to ensure that the correct content is added to the correct page on your website. If these guidelines are not followed it may result in additional costs being incurred for your project.
Depending on the content supply requirements for the given website clients will require a certain level of computer literacy. Below is a table of different content with details of supported formats and applications.
| Content Type | Supported Formats |
|---|---|
| Text |
Documents should clearly state which page the contents are for and any photos or images should be supplied separately to the document. If you have a specific Layout for this text then please provide a PDF proof in addition to the text document. This will ensure that we see the correct layout and aviod any file conversion or typeface issues. Please do not supply text as a PDF document. * Users of Office 2007 will need to save files in the previous MS Word file format, .doc. The new .docx file format is not backward compatible. |
| Photos |
All photos should be a minimum of 800-1200 pixels wide. The larger the supplied photo the better for us to work with. Photos should be scanned at 300dpi. Please do not supply photos as a PDF document. |
| Logos, Illustrations and other Graphics |
All logos should be supplied in a vector format with all text converted to paths/curves. If you are not able to supply the logo in a vector format then a high resolution bitmap should be used. If Logos, Illustrations and other Graphics are supplied as a PDF document please ensure it is an editable PDF format. |
| PDF Documents |
All PDF documents should be optimised ready for web use. Such optimisation will reduce the file size for downloading over the Internet. |
| Product Data |
This data will be entered via a web based interface. You will need to prepare the appropriate information ready to enter into this interface and upload the required photos at the required image size. |
If you are submitting content by e-mail you should limit the size of each e-mail to 4Mb. If you are supplying a large number of files you should consider sending these on a CD or creating a compressed folder/file containing all these files and e-mail a single file.
