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Basic Standards and
Guidelines and Requirements for Authoring on City's Web Site.
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You
must follow the same template for all “like” established sites –
(See Core Sites Handout)
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All of
your web pages must end in .asp
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You must have an all text duplicate web page for each web page
you create.
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You
must update text only pages when making changes to existing
pages.
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Your
all text web page must be named just like its graphic copy except you
will add a txt to the end of the file name.
Example: guidelines.asp - guidelinestxt.asp
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You
must include the college navigation on the top and bottom of all of
your pages. (*note there will be one INCLUDE file for
text-only pages and one for graphic pages). This will be specific
include code; you cannot add the navigation html and JavaScript
directly to your page.
(See INCLUDE Handout)
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Keep
your pages default alignment and use no page background colors. Table
background colors are allowed.
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Keep
your page within 790 to 1000 pixels wide. 100% is ok but you really need
to be experienced to make sure it looks good on all resolutions.
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Do not
use animated clipart –
(See Netiquette Handout)
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Use
clipart sparingly – it increases load time, looks amateur in most cases,
and doesn’t assist in delivering the message –
(See Netiquette Handout)
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Use
small jpg files for images that relate to your site
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Do not
add video or graphics that increase the load time unless they are a very
important part of delivering your message –
(See Netiquette Handout)
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Do not
use under construction images or statements -
(See
Netiquette Handout)
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Please
use our CSS on all of your pages (very advanced authors working on new
areas can develop their own as long as they stay within the standards
and guidelines)
(See
Core Sites Handout)
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Keep
your fonts within a range of 8pt, or 10px to 14pt or 16px, and never
use a serif font (Times New Roman) under size 10pt or 12px
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Use
san serif fonts (Arial, Helvetica, Verdana). Use serif fonts sparingly
for titles
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Please
compliment the college navigation when designing your pages. We
use #990033, #21537A and #FCEA91 for our main colors.
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Please
keep your site updated by sending in the URL and update to the
webmaster or by updating it yourself if you have permissions - if it has
outdated content by more than 30 days it can be removed from our site.
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Make
sure your pages load in 35 seconds or less on a 56k connection
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Don't add counters to your pages
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Last revision date and author information (e-mail, name) on your home
page and at least your e-mail and name on the bottom of every page
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The
Webmaster is responsible for the design of the web site. I will edit
formatting and design on an as needed basis to keep within the
college standards and guidelines. |
