WebWorks Development Guide

General Development Information

GC Site Structure & Naming System

• Web directories, also known as folders, have a standard naming system. Primarily, they use all lowercase names, without _ (underscores) or other symbols.
  
  The Office of Internet Communications determines the names for primary directories. Web Development directories for Academics, Athletics and Faculty/Staff additional pages are as follows:
  
  

  Academic Department "Additional Department Resources" Sites	www.greenville.edu/academics/ departments/nameofdepartment/resources.
  Athletic "Team (Year)" Sites	www.greenville.edu/athletics/ nameofsport/team(last two digits of year)
  Faculty Personal Pages	www. greenville.edu/faculty/ facultyname/personal
  Faculty-Sponsored Class Pages	www. greenville.edu/faculty/ facultyname/classname (i.e. com101)
  Faculty-Sponsored Organization Pages	www. greenville.edu/faculty/ facultyname/orgname (i.e. elpinice)
  Staff Personal Pages	www.greenville.edu/staff/ staffname/personal

  
  Pages developed under these base directories may be named at the discretion of the creator.
  
  
• Each directory should have an images or media folder to hold jpg, gif and other multimedia files.
  
  
• Web document names require a page name and extension (i.e. index.shtml). Documents created using the GC template require a .shtml extension in order for the server to know to parse the file for the header and footer server-side includes.
  
  
• Home pages, the main entry page for each directory, should be named index.htm (or .shtml, if using server-side includes)

Page Design

To maintain a consistent and usable site, some sections of greenville.edu have guidelines for page development. Links to these guidelines and other design information are listed below:

• Academic Page Design Guidelines
• Athletic Page Design Guidelines
• GC Web Colors & Graphics

Quality & Content

Academic, athletic and organizational pages may be developed to advance the mission of Greenville College and individual departments. Since all greenville.edu web pages reflect the nature of Greenville College, web pages located on greenville.edu are subject to existing Greenville College policies, including the Lifestyle Statement, as well as local, state and federal laws. Pages found in violation of these laws and policies will be removed from greenville.edu along with the creator's access to our site.

The Office of Internet Communications will conduct periodic reviews of greenville.edu pages.

Accessibility Standards

Greenville College endeavors to make our website accessible to all. Please visit the following resources for tips to make your pages more accessible to people with disabilities:

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WIA)
• W3C Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
• Guidelines 1.0
• World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design

General accessibility strategies include:

• Provide "alt" tags for all images, including text graphics and image maps.
• Provide "alt" tags for all links, or "hotspots," located on an image map.
• Provide text transcripts of audio and video files.

Copyright Information

All greenville.edu web pages must comply with United States copyright laws. For more information, visit:

• An Introduction to Copyright (USLaw.com)
• US Copyright Office
  Copyright Basics
  Digital Millennium Copyright Act Summary (.pdf file)
  

STARs Assistance

The Greenville College Business Management Department received a grant from the James S. Kemper Foundation to develop the Kemper Instructional Technology Resource Center (ITRC) and the Student Technology Assistant Researchers (STARs) program that will serve the Greenville College faculty as a training resource and provide employment opportunities for students proficient in various IT software programs.

Under the direction of Deloy Cole, students selected as STARs will be assigned to an individual faculty member as a one-on-one trainer. Faculty may apply to use the services of a STAR for up to 4 hours per week for a training project.

Faculty may utilize the services of this program for training on web development. Visit the STARs website for additional information and STARs Request Form.

Last updated: September 6, 2002