Saint Mary's College -Web Standards & Design Guidelines

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Employing a consistent professional style and a coherent organization is important to our users' experience of the Saint Mary's website. We want our web users to regard the Saint Mary's web site and our separate areas of this site as an effectively designed information system--easy to use and thoughtfully organized.

Although the college is the sum of many individual parts, we want visitors to our site to think of the college as a whole; one unit with one voice.

By maintaining consistency in our graphic style and content, we accomplish this task-- whatever the communication form; print, campus signage, or within our own web environment.

If sections of the site are left unattended and information is out of date, this is a reflection on the college as a whole.

It is our intention that this information guide be viewed as assistance - NOT as a mandate of what you absolutely can and cannot do.

These standards & guidelines have been developed to answer many questions you may have about designing and producing web pages in the Saint Mary's College Web environment.

How this site is set up...

The pages in this site provide the details and resources for you to create official websites within the Saint Mary's domain.

The links on the left side of these pages will guide you through the basic design expectations for your site. We hope that you will refer this document as you maintain your website.

Included are step by step instructions on how to apply a custom graphic header to your pages, or if you would feel more comfortable requesting assistance, please submit the "Redesign Request Form".

This is an on-going resource--additional information and will added to this website in the future, so please bookmark the URL and check back often.

If you can't find it here, let us know!
We're here to help!

For clarification about design and content issues, contact: webstandards@saintmarys.edu

For clarification on technical issues contact: webmaster@saintmarys.edu