Introduction
This style guide sets out guidelines for an
official 'Lehigh Web Style' as suggested by the Web
support staff and approved by the Network Information Council.
This document is intended as a reference work
for the creation of pages that will become
part of Lehigh University's official web presence.
Pages which are part of the Lehigh web, or which present
themselves as officially representing Lehigh in whole or part,
are expected to conform closely to these guidelines. This
requirement encompasses pages for departments,
offices, agencies, or officially-recognized organizations at
Lehigh. It is not intended to cover personal pages
hosted by the Lehigh web, although we hope that most of the
guidelines will prove useful for these individuals. It
would be gratifying if this effort were to become useful to
non-Lehigh web authors as well, although that is not its
primary purpose.
This guide aims
to provide standards for web page creation that will
help to ensure uniformly high quality for the Lehigh web. It
reflects our best understanding of current
standards and practices, as well
as our own values and priorities.
Due to the evolving nature of the web, and the standards
that apply to it, this document will require minor adjustments
over time regarding details.
This style guide is equally concerned with the web page as
rendered by the browser (what the visitor sees) and the
HTML code and supporting files (what the future
maintainer of the site will see).
These aspects, of course, cannot be completely
disentangled from one another, particularly as the choices made
in the underlying HTML code affects them both.
We hope that these
guidelines may form a framework within which all members
of the Lehigh University community may work to express
their creativity and to communicate among ourselves and
with others.
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