Web templates for Departments

The home page

As provided for downloading and described above, all of these templates are AAA complaint to WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards, but if you change them you will have to check accessibility again should you wish to label them as compliant (University Guidelines will be available in the first half of 2010). The templates use the xhtml 1.0 strict DTD (which dictates that formatting information is in the style sheet rather than coded into the page). Validate and correct the pages before you publish them.

Checklist for changes

If you are using one of these templates, you will need to do the following (from the top of the code):

• Change the title
• Add metadata description and keywords, and remove comment tags
• Either organise that your web server adds character information and remove character set definition, or leave in the existing line
• Add locations for the links from the global navigation and for the search box
• Add your department name in the header section and choose whether to make it a link
• Adjust the content in the middle part of the page
• Adjust footer information - link to your privacy and accessibility policies
• Validate the xhtml code and check accessibility compliance level

The title of this document is: Use of University of Cambridge web design: The home page
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/webstyle/home.html

Last updated: 12 April 2010