Page Content Guidelines for Department Websites
Department home page should include or link to:
- Mission statement or brief description of department
- One of:
- Q logo with link college home page; or:
- Header with Q, links to division, library, directory, search
- Hosted centrally so individual departments don’t need to update it
- Contact information (location, phone (with area code), fax, and email* if possible) for:
- Main office
- Other offices as appropriate
- Chairperson
- Department administrator
- Advisors (undergraduate, graduate, other) as appropriate
- Webmaster
- People
- Faculty
- contact information,* scholarship, bio, cv, photo desirable
- current teaching and office hours if these are kept current
- Staff
- Students, if appropriate
- Academic programs, with description, admission, etc
- Undergraduate
- Graduate
- Individual course descriptions – or link to college catalog entries
- Scholarship/research activities (perhaps under faculty listings)
- Events, colloquia, seminars, etc, as appropriate and if kept current
- Date of last update
- Size: < 50 kb, including images
All pages should:
- Include a descriptive title
- Be accessibility compliant, including text as ASCII, not as graphics, and Alt text for images
- Provide a link to department’s home page (in most cases)
- Warnings for specialized links, such as large files, audio, or video
- Follow WWW Consortium guidelines
All pages should avoid:
- Frames – instead, use Style Sheets or Includes for uniform look and feel
- Features that require plug-ins
- Complicated code
- Use standard html, readable, formatted, commented where needed
- Minimize use of Javascript and Java
- Size: < 40 kb, including images
- Schedule of classes – instead, link to registrar’s class schedule
- Blinking text, animations
To foil spam crawlers email addresses could be in the form name-at-domain-dot-edu, with
mailto: name@domain.edu link
Helpful Programs for Freshmen- Freshmen Five Year Initiative (FYI)
- Search for Education, Elevation & Knowledge Program (SEEK)
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