Web Team: CAES Web Style Guide
Minimum Requirements
Official College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Web pages must relate directly to CAES activities and programs, adhere to the college's mission, and must be solely non-profit in nature. As stated in the CAES World Wide Web Publishing Policy, the following elements must be present on all official CAES pages, regardless of server location:
- The UGA logo and CAES type treatment in accordance
with the university identity policy and college identity
policy, respectively
- An explicit link to the UGA home
page (http://www.uga.edu)
- An explicit link to the CAES home page (http://www.caes.uga.edu)
- Footer information
- Contact information plus feedback mechanism to assist the user in contacting the individual or group responsible for the material.
- Date last updated: (i.e. Last updated: July 6, 2005).
- UGA and CAES links.
- Links to the CAES Accessibility policy and a text-only
version
.
- Academic departments must include:
- Information for prospective students including links to undergraduate and graduate admissions.
- Information distinguishing undergraduate program offerings.
- Accessible design:
- The CAES is committed to ensuring accessibility of its Web sites for people with disabilities. See Accessibility.
- All CAES Web pages should conform to Section 508 standards.
- All CAES Web pages should conform to UGA's Web Accessibility and Persons with Disabilities guidelines.
Further, all content published to the World Wide Web is subject to:
- Applicable federal, state and local laws, ordinances and guidelines.
- Applicable University of Georgia computing policies.
- Applicable University System of Georgia policies and procedures.
- Pertinent intellectual property, copyright, and fair-use laws and policies.
- Rules and guidelines set forth by that site’s host (i.e. the Internet service provider, the CAES Office of Information Technology, or UGA's Enterprise Information Technology Services).
Additional Policies: Administrative Council members may develop Web policies for their individual departments or units. Such policies may not supersede the policies contained in the CAES Web Publishing Policy.
Note to Independent Web Contractors: Independent Web designers and developers are expected to produce Web sites that adhere to the College's minimum guidelines and appropriately use the College templates. Please contact the Web team for further details or assistance. It is strongly advised that initial plans for any site redesign include the Web team, as shared resources may eventually be needed. This is to ensure that all key information is communicated up front with College groups and external parties.