Delta College Web Publishing

Guidelines for San Joaquin Delta Community College District Official Web pages that represent the college, a division, department, program, or individual of the District are expected to follow the same professional and graphic standards that apply to official publications in any other medium. Templates, web design resources and guidelines are available on the District’s Website to assist users in implementing pages and sites that meet District standards.

There is one official home page for the District that is maintained by the Webmaster.

Divisions and departments will use the standard templates in order to maintain consistency in design and navigation. Divisions and Departments will include a minimum of the following information on their home page:

• Title of the division or department (On a department home page, the title of the parent division must be included under the department title)
• Descriptive information about the division/department. (Purpose, mission, goals, services, certificates offered, etc.)
• Contact information
• Office hours, location, phone, e-mail.

Staff and faculty individual pages that are linked to their division/department pages and/or convey official college information will meet Delta College design and accessibility standards. Standard templates are available for these pages. The templates were designed to provide standard contact information consistent with a college publication.

Faculty who have course materials on a personal web site will need to design these pages so that they meet accessibility standards.

Staff who choose to use non-standard design elements for a personal page will have their pages listed only on the Personal Pages site. Non-standard personal pages will not be linked to a department or division as they do not represent an official college publication. The college has the option of not hosting personal pages.

A variety of color options are provided as templates. The divisions and departments are encouraged to work out a consistent color theme, utilizing these templates, for their sites.

Proper grammar and spelling will be used throughout the site.

References and links to external sites that market commercial products and services should be in the context of an instructional related example or resource and not for profit.

Users are responsible for the security of their site accounts and services as described in Board Policy 8900.

Text fonts for Web pages will be established in the templates. The users may adjust font sizes as needed, but the styles must remain compatible with the template design.

To maintain ease of use and navigational consistency in the site, the basic structure of the template should be maintained. The basic elements for consistency are the header, background, and navigation box on left.

Text will not be animated.

Long lists, especially of links, will be alphabetized. Short lists, i.e. fewer than 10 items, can be ordered in terms of importance to the user and ease of access for users.

Text should be presented in cohesive topics or information “chunks”. Think “magazine article” or newspaper style not “book.” If text is multi-paged, a PDF file may be more appropriate. There are accessibility issues with PDF files that would need to be resolved prior to publication of the file.

 

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