The "Wellesley Standard": Required Elements Wellesley College requires a standard set of informational elements be on all College Web Site pages. This information helps users locate and evaluate material, and helps the webmaster and other staff maintain the server as efficiently as possible. Required Elements
This is the information which appears at the very top of your browser window, rather than the apparent title on a page. It is used by many search engines as the page title. It should be short, descriptive, and less than 64 characters long. Include a department name or other indication of the focus of the pages.
This is the information at the very bottom of the page which gives the name and e-mail address of the provider of the page, the dates the files were created, last modified, and the expiration date. Provider name - email@wellesley.edu Created: September 15, 1999 Last Modified: February 15, 2002 Expires: September 1, 2002 This lets the user know who is responsible for the information and how recently it has been reviewed, as well as helping the page creator keep track of versions.
Alt tags identify images on your page for those who view it without loading the graphics files. An alt tag should give a short description of an image, and perhaps its purpose. For instance, a picture of Lake Waban might say "Lake Waban, autumn". Alt tag information is important for users who have vision disabilities or other access issues.
Our server is case sensitive! An example of a proper path and filename is the address for this page: http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/Digitech/Handbook/standard.html Note the capitalization pattern. Library is the account folder and has an initial capital. If you have other folders within your account, such as Digitech and Handbook, please capitalize the names of these sub-folders. Names of files [such as standard.html] need to be entirely lowercase and end in the file extension .html [not .htm]. There should be no spaces or system characters (e.g. slashes) in the filenames.
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