Helpful Tools For Your Web Work
Introducing a selection of valuable tools available to assist web editors in streamlining their tasks and enhancing the quality of their content.
Photos
- Cascade Image Cropper: Designed exclusively for W&M Cascade editors, the image cropper offers free online image cropping with preloaded dimensions specific to image assets in Cascade. Just upload your photo, select your desired image size, crop and download.
- Squoosh: Use of large images on your pages can increase the time and data it takes a visitor to load your page, and reduces their overall experience. Squoosh is a tool that helps you compress a large image's file size to optimize it for use on the web before you upload it to Cascade.
- William & Mary on Flickr: Browse and search W&M's official Flickr page for high-quality photos you can use on your website. See a photo you like? Request a copy using this form.
Writing
- Cascade Writing & Style Guide: These best practices are tried-and-true guidelines that help you create content to draw visitors in and showcase your department or program's best attributes. The guide includes information about accessibility, writing for the web, acceptable word styles and more.
- Hemingway Editor: Hemingway is like a spellchecker but for style. The tool highlights and corrects grammar, fluency and sentence structure while providing readability feedback. Other tools such as Grammarly provide similar functions.
Miscellaneous
- W&M URL Shortener: Need a quick short URL or a QR code? You're covered with this tool.
- Smallpdf: A free tool that allows you to convert, compress and edit your PDF files.
