WebWorks Development Guide

Athletic Page Guidelines

How Do I Request Access to My Sport's "Team [Year]" Directory?

If your sport is interested in developing a "Team" site for this school year on greenville.edu, please select a faculty or staff web coordinator for your sport. This coordinator should apply for a WebWorks Account using the WebWorks Account Request Form.

If you have selected a student to assist your sport with this project, please fill out the "Request for Student Access" section of this form along with the sport coordinator's information.

Please allow two working days to receive access following submission of your request.

Why Do We Have Athletic Page Guidelines?

greenville.edu pages reflect the mission and quality of a Greenville College education. To ensure visitors to our website have a positive experience, our pages must be designed for consistency, accuracy and usability. These guidelines provide a design framework within which yearly team sites can be developed with a high degree of consistency, accuracy and usability, while at the same time allowing for individual team personality.

What Athletic Information Is Maintained by the Offices of Admissions & Web Communications?

In an effort to maintain accurate prospective student information, Admissions/Internet Communications maintain an introductory page and schedule for each team. "Team [Year]" sites may be added at the request of the faculty or staff team web coordinator.

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How Will Visitors Find Our Athletic "Team [Year]" Pages?

Once a sport has developed their "Team [Year]" site, a "Team [Year]" link will be placed under the picture on the left-hand side of the main sport page.

Who Is Responsible for the Content Creation and Maintenance for Athletic "Team [Year]" Pages?

Each individual sport's faculty or staff web coordinator will oversee content creation and maintenance for Athletic "Team [Year]" pages.

Individual sport web coordinators are encouraged to conduct regular reviews of their "Team [Year]" pages. If these pages become out-of-date, they will be unlinked from the site until the appropriate updates are made.

Do Athletic "Team [Year]" Pages Need to Resemble Standard greenville.edu Pages?

Athletic "Team [Year]" pages are free from traditional greenville.edu template designs, but must follow the guidelines for color, navigation and multimedia files listed below:

Design Guidelines for Athletic "Team [Year]" Pages

• Color
  
  

  Primary Page Colors:
  GC Orange	#FF6600
  GC Black	#000000
  Link Colors:
  Text	#000000	Text
  Link	#FF6600	Link
  Active Link	#CCCCCC	Active Link
  Visited Link	#666666	Visited Link

  
  Web logos for Greenville College*
  Web logos for Panther Athletics*
  *The logos must appear as is, with the exception of proportional resizing when needed. If Hogue Hall and Greenville College are placed in close proximity to each other, one of the pre-designed combinations must be used.
  
  
• Navigation
  
  Each Athletic "Team [Year]" page must include the following links:
  
  
  1. A link to the main athletic page from which each page originates. (i.e. "Cross Country")
  2. "athletics@greenville.edu" mailto link
  3. A link to "Greenville College Admissions" (http://www.greenville.edu/admissions)
  4. "admissions@greenville.edu" mailto link
  5. A link to "Greenville College Home" (http://www.greenville.edu/)
  6. A link to team page webmaster email.
     
  
  
• Multimedia Files
  
  Flash - The use of Flash is discouraged for primary content. Due to usability (the need for the Flash plugin), accuracy (once Flash files are created they are rarely updated), and consistency (Flash coding and look greatly differs from the traditional greenville.edu pages).
  
  The most appropriate use for Flash multimedia presentations is optional, promotional "online commercials" for GC athletic programs or events.
  
  If a sport elects to use Flash files, the following links must be made available if a visitor attempts to access the files:
  
  1. A link to the main sport page
  2. A link to the free Flash plugin on the Macromedia site (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/)
  
  MP3 - You may save and link to legal copies of MP3 files. Any file which goes against federal copyright laws will be removed.
  
  Streaming Media - We currently do not service requests to place streaming media files on the greenville.edu server, other than the server maintained by WGRN. You may link to existing streaming media files from your pages.
  
  

Last updated: September 6, 2002