Standards for Institution Web Pages

[Sutherland, Paul]

I am interested if anyone has a document that outlines the standards for
your web site, and if you would be prepared to share it with me.

Stylistic, technical, accessibility etc issues are all of interest to me

Or does anyone know of good sites where I could pick up this sort of
stuff.

I am aware of various style guides that exist on the www and
accessibility
guides, but what i am interested is actual organizations policy
documents &
Rules and guidelines.

The site I am dealing with is the Christchurch City Council
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/, a local goverment body with about 310,000
citizens. We currently have about 2.5K pages mos of which I have done
thus there is a consistency in style, but what I need to do is get down
on paper the "rules"/guidelines, (esp for those rule based people).

Stuff which allows multiple authors to have diversity and creativity but
still end up
with the "overall look and feel" of the organization.

To contain the tension between control and creativity with multiple
authors/editors both inhouse and contracted out...

e.g. Things which might say

	you must ensure that pages are functional with Netscape
2.02/3.0x and Lynx 

	All pages must have a date of last edited, and a contact

	All images must have an alt tag

	If pages require Active-x or Javascript alternatives must be
offered for
	browsers that cannot handle these.

	All framed pages must have a noframes conterpart.

	Graphic only pages must have a text only companion..

	etc

Thanks in anticipation

/paul

Paul Sutherland                      Paul.Sutherland at ccc.govt.nz
 Information Technology Librarian
 Canterbury Public Library
 Aotearoa/New Zealand                 http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/
 My opinions only            Less is more, but not enough. Sol Le Wit