Table of Contents:
Introduction
Principles
Preliminary Analysis
Mechanics
General HTML Concerns
Specific HTML Concerns
Graphics
Required Elements
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Required Elements
This section provides guidelines for what are typically called
"departmental" pages at Lehigh. These pages are created to provide
information to a wide range of visitors, including the university
community, potential students and their families, alumni, scholars,
and casual visitors.
The term Departmental pages covers a wide spectrum of "types"
of pages. Groups providing such pages range from student clubs,
university organizations, colleges, academic departments, and
administrative groups. Although at first glance, these groups may not
appear to have anything in common, they all are a vital part of
Lehigh's "official" web presence. A closer look reveals the following:
- they provide information about an officially sanctioned
entity of the University
- the content of the pages is usually provided by someone
other than the creator or maintainer of the pages
- maintenance of the pages is "on-going"
- the person responsible for maintaining the pages is
usually not the creator
- the information contained on the pages must be timely and
accurate in order to be useful
Content Requirements
Departmental Pages, at a minimum, should contain the following
information. These are in addition to the items noted in General HTML Concerns and Specific HTML Usage:
- Creator Information
- The page should have the name, or at least the initials of
the author visible on the page. This name should be linked
either to a
mailto: tag, or perhaps a link to
the author's home page.
- Maintainer Information
- Every page must have a staff member who is designated as the
maintainer of that page. The person's name and title must
be visible on the page and there must be either a
mailto: tag, or a link to a comment form
which enables a visitor to contact the maintainer.
- Update Information
- The date of the last update of the page must be visible,
as well as the status of the page, e.g. Updated
Weekly.
- Navigational Links
- Links should be provided to help the visitor move within
the pages.
- Link to a higher level page
- Due to the hypertext nature of the web, there is no
set path to a page. From a departmental home page, there should be a
link to the Lehigh home page, from a "lower-level" departmental page,
there should be a link to the department home page.
- Contact Information (For more information
please contact...)
- A
mailto: tag to the departmental account
(make sure that someone reads the mail on a daily basis for that
account!), a phone number (with area code), and a postal address
should be visible on the page.
In addition, Academic departmental pages should
contain the following information:
- name of the college with a link to the college home page
- chair of the department
- listing of the faculty members
- events and programs specific to the department
- undergraduate information
- graduate information
- research activities
- links to related organizations
Required Code Elements
The comments tag provides a useful way to document HTML source code.
Comments should be used in order to provide continuity and
explanations about the file. Although comments do not affect the
visual contents of the page, they can greatly aid in the functionality
of the page. Within a comments tag (multi-line comments should be
broken into one line comments to ensure that all browsers interpret
them correctly) should be the following information:
- the original creator of the page, with id and date
- the current maintainer of the page, with id and date of
last update
- any additional information that is helpful in
understanding the nature of the pages, eg. file structure, information
sources, schedule of updates, key dates
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