Publishing a Web Site at Wellesley College

On this page you'll find links to advice, instruction, and tools from many different departments and areas of expertise, intended for both the seasoned site developer as well as the web novice, covering the entire process of web site creation and maintenance. We would be delighted to help you at any point in your web publishing.

Wellesley College Standard
Very few aspects of publishing a web site are mandated at Wellesley College. The required standards involve informational elements necessary for user accessibility and server maintenance. For a site to be uploaded, it must adhere to the following:

• Each web page must have a title and a dog tag at the bottom of the page
• Images must have alt tags
• Files and folders must be consistently named
• If your site is for a student organization, please also refer to these guidelines

Best Practices in 10 Steps

Process: Determining need, investigation, design, creation, testing, upload, communication, maintenance, redesign

Design and creation: Sample layouts, Dreamweaver, look and feel: font, screen size, navigation, frames, filenames

Content: Timeliness/durability, intellectual property and copyright issues, writing for the web, content suggestions for academic, administrative, and student sites, spellcheck

Graphics and media: Acquiring and manipulating images, digital cameras, scanning, Fireworks, Photoshop (through elementK), video, audio, PDFs

Coding and interactivity: HTML, stylesheets, javascript, forms

Usable sites: Designing for accessibility through color, fonts, navigation, tracking site access

Being easy to find: Making your site searchable

Testing: Cross-platform, multiple browser

Uploading: Who can do it (faculty and staff, students, student organizations), accounts, WinSCP, Fetch

Organization: Managing your site and files

Software Documentation

Adobe Acrobat (PDF files)

Amadeus (digital audio)

Digital cameras

Dreamweaver (web publishing software)

Fetch (uploading software for Macintosh)

Fireworks (graphics creation/manipulation)

iMovie (digital video)

iTunes (digital audio)

JavaScript (interactivity)

Photoshop (also see Element K)

Scanning

WinSCP (uploading software for Windows)

Other Resources
Wellesley College Webmaster's page

The Wellesley College Web Site is on a web server - a networked, central computer which allows files stored on it to be accessible to any other computer in the world which has Internet access. These web files may be text, images, sounds, video, interactive forms such as those used for data submission, or multimedia.

This guide is intended to inform College Web Site providers about the "Wellesley standard" and the design process, accessibility issues and technical requirements for the files they will upload to the Wellesley web server. All College Web Site providers should also feel free to ask the Library/Digital Technologies staff any further questions, or to suggest information which might be useful to add to these pages.

Students

Students may publish personal web pages on the student server known as Wilbur. The Wellesley Web Weavers, a student-run group, manage Wilbur. To contact the Web Weavers, please post on the WebHelp conference on FirstClass (Wellesley Conferences -> Student Forums -> WebHelp (new)).

Student Organizations

Student organizations may publish pages for their groups, and have their activities listed on the Women about Town page. Please contact MacKenzie Stewart for assistance with student organization web pages. There are content guidelines for the Student organization pages and instructions for uploading pages. All documents published on the Wellesley College Web Site must adhere to the "Wellesley Standard".

Faculty/Staff

Individuals may create web pages, but only the departmental "College Web Site Provider" can place your files on the server. Departments make their own decisions about what may be contained on pages, and the organization of the pages. Contact your departmental College Web Site Provider for help posting your files. If you are unsure who is the departmental College Web Site provider, call the webmaster at x3724 or the helpdesk at x3333.

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