Web Policies

Requesting a New Web Editor For Your Department/Organization

If you would like to have a student or staff member set up to edit a departmental or organizational page you will need to do the following:

1. Go to the Information Technology Work Orders page and submit a work order for Website: Official College.
2. Read over the Web Editor Guidelines below.
   • If you are a student you will need your faculty advisor to send an e-mail (or submit a work order) to James Clark stating the student name and the site they are to have access to.
   • If you are a staff/faculty member who will be accessing a deparment or office site, the department head will be notified of the request.
3. Once the supervisor/department head confirms any request, the new web editor will be contacted for a brief meeting as stated below.

New Web Editor Guidelines

The following is required for anyone working on a website:

• All editors must be approved by the department head or organization sponsor and by the College Webmaster. Written permission (in either email or paper form) is required for any students working on an official college page.
• Students may work on departmental web sites but it is the department's responsibility to make sure that all departmental pages follow the web site design guidelines as stated below.
• All new webmasters must attend a short training session. This session includes information on connecting to the site, working with Dreamweaver, and web site policies.

A Note On Consistency

Keeping the same navigation structure, background, colors, and fonts helps to make a site more appealing and easier to use. Dreamweaver and cascading style sheets provide tools to help keep Cornell's site consistent. Cornell's site has a cascading style sheet that formats headings, general text, hyperlinks, photos, and more. Dreamweaver has templates that allow parts of a page to be done on a site-wide basis. Changing those things brings inconsistency. Whenever possible, web editors are encouraged to use the standards below.

Site Specifics
Notice on your home page that the page is divided up into a number of sections. Some of these sections you can edit, some you can't. The ones that you can are called editable areas.

1. Title
   Located at the top of the page is right under the title bbar. It should always follow the same format: "Cornell College - Department of Philosophy - Faculty".
2. Subtitle and Right Photo
   These are already set for you, but you can follow the online tutorial located at http://www.cornellcollege.edu/header_templates/ to make changes.
3. Breadcrumbs
   These let people easily navigate back through the Cornell site. Generally they will just go two levels deep. One of the items will always be HOME. The second will be your department. The name that appears is the name of your department folder. If you would like it to say something else, DO NOT change the name of your folder. Instead send us an email and we can make the change without changing your folder name. This is to keep you from having to fix dead links across your site and for us to fix dead links across anyone else's site.
4. Department
   For the most part the name of your department goes here.
5. Related Topics
   Insert links to webpages that are somehow related to your site or that people might be interested in seeing. Can be on or off campus, usually should be on-campus. If you want a number of off-campus links, create a LINKS page and put it in your navigation. Please use SHIFT+ENTER to create your line breaks.
6. Contact Info
   Shouldn't be any need to change unless the college moves. The department contact can vary per page and per department. This contact person, department or office does not need to be the same as the person/persons under the "MAINTAINED BY" region.
7. Body
   This is your main content area. All the information you want to get out to people goes here. The space if flexible in that it can grow if you need it to be wider, but we don't recommend it if you can avoid it.
8. Text and Image Formatting
   Body text should use generally be entered with little or no formatting. General text is formatted according to the site stylesheet and should not be altered. Headings should use the purple-header style. Pictures should use the photo style. Information on setting styles can be found on the Text Appearance Page and the Image Size Page.
9. Maintained By
   The name of the person who maintains the site or just the department of an email address. All pages need to have the email address for either the department, office, or organization or the email of the maintainer.

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