Alerts are used to notify the public about a change or impact to a City service, to flag a health advisory or notice. Some appropriate examples of when to use a Page Alert, include: facility closures, program changes, unavailability of online applications, and changes in service hours.
Criteria
Hyperlinks may be included as part of the text if the content is robust enough to require a separate page for detailed alert information. Detail Alert pages will be hidden from navigation and only linked to from the Alert box message.
Page Alerts should be limited to text and necessary hyperlinks, and should not include lists, bolding, italics, headings, in-line images.
Should be limited to 250 characters.
Alerts should not be used as an alternative to a Highlight.
Only one Alert box per page.
Two Alert messages allowed in one box with a line break in between.
A stop time can be set so the page Alert is automatically removed at a specific date/time.