WEB PAGE GUIDELINES for FACULTY &
STAFF
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| • Public
Pages & Course Pages |
| There
are two types of web pages available to faculty and staff of BCC. |
| Public
pages consist of web space provided by the Computing
Resource Center for individual, personal, webpages .These pages
are accessible by everyone. They can contain a variety of content,
from biographical
info to hobbies. |
| Course
Pages are
available via BCC
Today (the college's internal web portal). If your
teaching a class you will automatically find a web page for it under
the My
Courses
area.
You
can use this
page to post information, quickly email your students, and even talk
to student’s via a course chat room. Changes you make to this
page will instantly be visible in the student version of BCC
Today. These pages are only viewable by you and your students. |
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Assistance |
| Tutorials,
assistance and BCC Web page templates are available from the Teaching
Resource Center.
(Here you can use software like Dreamweaver
to help you create your pages), call x5354. |
| •
Creating Web Pages |
| Computing
Resources
will provide space for Public Websites. Contact them to have your
account setup, and to find out how to access your folders. Course
Homepages are automatically created inside BCC Today. Contact the TRC for tips
on taking advantage of Course Homepage tools. |
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Design
Guidelines (logos & webpages) |
Templates
for BCC webpages can be obtained at the TRC. All
BCC departments and offices are expected to follow the college's design
guidelines. This will help to display a more unified "look
and feel" to
site visitors.
- The BCC logo should
always provide a link to BCC’s home page.
- The logo's color
should never be altered.
- The logo should never be
distorted, cut apart, or redrawn. The words "Broome Community College" and "State University of New
York" are part of the logo, and should not be separated from it
or re-set in other typefaces.
- The footer should indicate the most recent update of the page.
- The Top Navigation
bar and Trailer should be centered (preferably within a centered
table, 650 pixels wide) - Visit
the TRC for a template.
- The Top Navigation bar
should never be "re-sized".
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Additional
Guidelines & Tips |
- Please do not use Frames. Many
Web users dislike framed Web sites because they can "get stuck" in
the frames when surfing to another site. They also can't bookmark
a particular page within a
framed site. Many search engines will not list framed Web sites, and
some browsers can't read framed Web sites at all.
- Please use ALT TAGS. Alt Tags should be used to describe all
of your images and pages. Visitors who have elected not to download
images will see at least see the descriptive text, even though they
cannot see the image itself. More importantly, many search engines collect
Alt Tags so that they may catalog images, as well as entire Web sites.
- Optimize your images. Visitors will leave if your site takes
too long to load. Creation of Web images requires you to balance the
quality of a graphic with the file-size. You can optimize an image online
by going HERE.
- Be sure to use the full HTML extension for all your pages files
(mypage.html) instead of the shortened HTM extension.
- Give your page a clear title and navigation so that visitors
know where they are, and where they can go from your page.
- Make sure visitors can get to your page. Request links from
the proper directory pages, or department pages, on the main site.
- Use clear headings, lists, and consistent structure.
- Make navigation easy and obvious: put key information where
it is visible without scrolling and use menus to indicate content.
- Focus on Content not fancy effects. Minimize use of animated
graphics, they use a lot of memory and this slows down the loading
of your page.
- INDEX.HTML should be used as the file name for the first page
of your site.
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Suggested Resources |
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For
more information please contact: |
- Technical
info: Meigo Kao
x5529
- Content
info: Jesse
Wells x5478
- Training and Assistance:
Teaching Resource Center x5354
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