Web Management: Departmental Pages
Setting up WebSpace
Managing Web Space
Course pages
Adding Additional Authors
Lehigh Departments and Offices are encouraged to set up their own
web pages. To do so, they need:
- A departmental AFS account. (Many departments already have an AFS/Network Server account.
If not, you may request one by obtaining a form from Client Services.)
- A departmental webspace (acquired by going to http://www.lehigh.edu/account and running W3Setup on the departmental account)
- Some idea of what they want to put on the web
- A web-capable staff member
- A person or persons to put up web pages (this can be a student, a staff member,
faculty, etc.)
Note: it is tempting to hire a student to create and maintain your departmental and
office web pages. This is fine, but there should be some full time
staff member in your area who is familar enough with web authoring to supervise
the student and maintain the web page when the student is not available (vacations, exams,
graduation, etc.).
It is suggested that departments set up group of authors who can maintain their
web pages, and give them rights to edit in your web space
(seeAdding Additional Authors
for instructions). That way, no-one except the department coordinator need
have access to the departmental account main password and email.
It is also suggested that you use the Network Server main forwarding
option (enter moptions, then enter an email address in "Forward all mail to")
to forward the mail to that account to the coordinator, the chair, or the head
of the department.
Content Recommendations
Requirements
At Lehigh, all department and office main pages should contain:
- The name of the department or office
- Contact information (phone number, email, postal address, location)
- An email link (mailto or comment form) to send email to the primary maintainer or coordinator
Suggestions for Academic Departments
Some things Academic Departments may want to make available:
- Information about their undergraduate and graduate programs
- Faculty listings
- Course listings (Possibly using a link to the Lehigh Course Catalog)
- Course web pages
- Seminar & Colloquia information
- Links to student groups and activities
- Facilities
- Recent Research
Suggestions for Offices
Web pages for administrative offices should include:
- Description of office function ('what we do')
- Office hours
- Staff listing
- Contact information for specific functions
- Documents and Announcements of interest to the campus community
Style
It is recommended that Lehigh official pages obey the Lehigh Web Style Guide.
Recommendations include:
- Keeping introductory pages minimal
- Keeping pages under 30K in size
- Using standard, non-browser dependent HTML.
- Avoiding the use of frames when possible.
- Providing text-browser-compliant pages.
- Captioning all images with ALT tags.
- Providing alternatives to Javascript and other browser-dependent technologies to provide information
For help with graphics support, you can contact the web manager (www@lehigh.edu), or
University Design (83018). Note: You may use the Lehigh Mark:
where ever it is appropriate, but you may not make alterations
to the mark, except in changing its size.