WWW Publishing Guidelines - Clubs and Organizations

Definition

Clubs/Organizations such as Le Cercle Français, The Augustana Mirror, collaborative working sites, or the Augustana Student Association; and any other Augustana entities may create pages that reflect the individual "personality" of the group.  These pages will be designed, created, and maintained at the direction of the individual department/unit/organization in accordance with the following:

Requirements

• contact name and e-mail address of the individual responsible for the information on each main section or web site
• a link to the Augustana Home Page on the main page
• compliance with current copyright law
• all Augustana College identifier graphics (those pertaining to the College, not necessarily the club or organization) must come from the Augustana College Images for Electronic Publications, unless prior permission has been obtained from Public Relations for use of other identifiers.

Recommendations

• list of members or participants in the group, especially group officers
• the date the page was last updated on each page/document
• compliance with the HTML 4.0 standard (transitional) as verified by a validation service
• Use relative URLs for internal links when constructing pages.  Transferring sites/pages is much easier with relative URLs because it isn't necessary to change every link within a site/page.
• Check the pages with a variety of computers and browsers.  Colors vary from PC to Macs, as well as on different monitors.
• As a rule of thumb, try to keep the total size of a page/document including images under 60kb.  Slow connections due to modems or congestion on the Internet make it frustrating to wait for a large page to load.
• If information already exists in another page on the Augustana site, consider linking to that page rather than re-typing the information.  The fewer places information has to be changed, the less likely there will be conflicting information on the site.
• include a copyright statement

Server

Clubs and organization sites will be located on either student.augie.edu or faculty.augie.edu - whichever is most appropriate for the specific group. Sites may reside on an alternative server if agreed to by the college WWW coordinator and/or Webmaster.

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