a style guide for the river campus libraries michael donovan river campus libraries
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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Michael DonovanRiver Campus Libraries
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Agenda
1. What is a style guide?2. What are the resources for page editors?3. What are the responsibilities of the Digital
Initiatives Unit and Page Editors?4. Questions?
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
What is a Style Guide?
A set of guidelines(i.e. all text is top aligned and left justified)
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
What Does it Accomplish?
• Universal Design• ADA Compliance• Aesthetics• Usability
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Sources for Guidelines
• Web Design and Usability Literature Sarah Horton’s Web Style Guide (www.
webstyleguide.com) WebAIM web accessibility standards & SEC. 508.
(http://www.webaim.org/standards/) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML &
accessibility standards (www.w3.org) Research Based Web Design and Usability
Guidelines (www.usability.gov/guidelines)
• Experience & Education
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Resources For Page Editors
• Staff Documentation• Page Editors’ Updates & Web Updates• Page Editors’ Checklist• Link Checker• Digital Initiatives Unit
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Page Editors’ Checklist
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
All Guidelines Fit Into Categories
• Universal Design• ADA Compliance• Aesthetics• Usability
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Digital Initiatives Unit Responsibilities
• Create & update the style guidelines• Apply the style guidelines to top level
pages• Keep Page Editors up-to-date
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Page Editors Responsibilities
• Apply checklist to your pages • Check links• Give feedback on use of tools
A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries
Questions?