Guidelines for Publishing on the UW Web Site (www.washington.edu)

The following links provide information for Web developers at the University of Washington developing on the www.washington.edu server. If you have technical questions or concerns, please see www.washington.edu Developer Information.

Creating and Publishing Content

When to use the coordinated UW look and feel
Get Started Working on www.washington.edu:

Organizing and Writing Administrative Web Pages--Developing content
Using templates and page elements--Understand the elements used to create the coordinated look and feel

Templates and Code used to create the look and feel

Creating and using breadcrumbs--A description of breadcrumbs and how to use them on your own pages
Using a custom banner graphic--How to set up a repeating or non-repeating banner graphic on your own pages
Installing and maintaining your documents--Viewing your documents in the development environment and installing them into production
How to use the UW Header and Footer on non-www.washington.edu Servers - Instructions and code for how to use the UW Header and Footer on application servers.

Style Guidelines and Requirements

Guidelines for mailto forms pages-- Required standards for mailto forms including suggestions for increasing form usability
Accessibility guidelines--Guidelines for implementing information and systems that work more effectively for all
Web Application Interface Standards & Guidelines

Additional Resources

UW Resources

Technical information--Detailed information about the www.washington.edu server
Making UW Web sites accessible to everyone--A compilation of accessibility information including guidelines, laws, and resources
Writing a privacy statement--Suggestions for creating your own privacy statement
URL Forwarding Service--Associate a custom domain name with your Web site

Tools

HTML-Kit--A free HTML editor with built in "Tidy"
Xenu link checker--A free tool for finding broken links
Javascript random image and link - Set up a random image and link for your web page. Be sure to add a noscript element for browsers without javascript support.