1  Common page elements

The top of a page is the first part of page seen, so it contains significant information about the page and its context.

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Banners and article headers scale with the width of the page, so their elements stay in the same spatial relationship to each other and will not suddenly wrap around at narrow widths.

The accessibility checkbox, like all checkboxes in Smallsite Design, includes a label that can also be clicked to change the checkbox state in addition to clicking on the checkbox itself.

The article footer contains related links, footnotes, and meta-data about the article.

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This section contains various links and functional blocks.

Latest articles will only include non-subsite-specific articles, and excludes the current article.

While search engines profess to scan the web, Google will typically completely ignore 70-96% of a website, except for the most popular. This can be checked by searching for the domain name for a site prefixed with site:. This should list all pages that have not been blocked from being searched, but does not. Bing used to be better at only 50-60% ignored, but as of August 2023 lists 100%, with no 200 pages limit that Google imposes. Smallsite Design's search facility will show all pages that include all the search words, ordered by those with most numerous occurrences first.

If many locales, the list in Locales will be scrollable. The locale codes link to the master locale name to bring it into view.

Smallsite Design opens external sites in another browser window/tab to facilitate visitors not losing their current place on the site.

Links can have a HTML target attribute that specifies where a page is opened. If the attribute does not exist, the target page replaces the current page, which is normally fine as that is what visitors would expect. However, there are some situations where that would unduly interrupt the reading or work flow.

In Smallsite Design, all links to external pages open in a new tab|window by default, and are formatted like external link to distinguish them from an internal link. However, the search facility at the bottom of each page also opens the resulting Search page in a new tab|window, though any searches on that page will not, and any links in its search results will not.

There are several keyboard shortcuts available within Smallsite Design.

Which keys need to be pressed and held while pressing the shortcut key will depend upon the browser and operating system used. The Alt | option key is always required, but the Shift key may be required if it is used in normal typing to get the shortcut key. Firefox always requires the Shift key, which means that some shortcuts may not be available if the shifted key is also an access key, such as - which shifts to _. Keyboards for some languages may not have all these keys available, and so an onscreen US-style keyboard might be needed to use them.

In general, shortcut keys are not recommended because they may interfere with assistive technology keyboard shortcuts. However, they usually use letters, while Smallsite Design uses these non-alphabetic characters exclusively, so there should be no conflicts, unless the assistive software's default shortcuts have been changed to use some these characters.

Smallsite Design provides several facilities to help those who have disabilities, without interfering with those who do not.

The accessibility mode is mainly for those with adverse sensitivities to many spatial design artifacts that most find preferable. It will not be suitable for those with severe sensitivities or visual impairments who should continue to use their preferred accessibility software or browser plugins to override page CSS settings with those that suit them better.

For those wanting to bookmark pages with accessibility mode on, turn it on and then save the page as a bookmark.

Links are not underlined in obviously linked-filled areas like navigation bars, related links, and the Links area. They are not underlined in management pages because they are everywhere, presenting extra clutter, and users would be expected to quickly become familiar with where they are and what they look like. However, when hovered over, links and buttons will still show an underline, with links in red and buttons with a blue halo.

Smallsite Design provides multiple means of showing copyright holder names.

In jurisdictions that are signatories to the Berne Convention, copyright exists as soon as a work is created, regardless of whether it is published (publicly revealed) or not, or whether it has a © and a name. Copyright is about control of the form and mediums in which the covered material is available. The laws backing copyright are designed to give the copyright holder time to earn a living out of their work, among other benefits, before the rights revert to the public domain for the benefit of all of humanity.

While technically not relevant here, unfortunately many trade agreements, especially under pressure from the US, have incorporated extended copyright terms, withholding widespread public benefit for generations. Such terms have often been at the behest of media organisations that spent decades exploiting creators through manipulative contracts.

Note that copyrights are separate from moral rights, which are about ensuring that the rightful creator of a work is identified, regardless of who may currently own the copyrights. They can usually only be revoked in writing by the creator, such as when contracting out their labour, and there is an explicit clause in the contract that revokes their moral rights. They came about because the same media organisations used to nominate authors of works who did not create them.