[WEB4LIB] Standards for Web Page Submission

[Pons, Lisa (PONSLM)]

We're actually moving towards this, and hope to implement it in January.

That is, our new site pages were designed within xhtml transitional code.
Those wishing to contribute new content must do so with a tool that will
validate this code.

Older pages will have to be brought up to snuff (though the time period is
still in question). 

One of the things we are looking at in helping to accomplish this is a CMS
or more dynamic content solution.


On our soon-to-be-released intranet, we are easing up on these standards
somewhat, and allowing word to html. (though my left eye twitches even
writing the sentence). 

Lisa

Lisa Pons

Webmaster
University Libraries
University of Cincinnati
lisa.pons at uc.edu
(513)556-1431

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Smith [mailto:tsmith1 at ohiou.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:43 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Standards for Web Page Submission


I found last week's discussion on "What's next after HTML?" to be very
interesting and thought-provoking. This posting reflects one of the thoughts
it provoked in me.

I'm the main web manager in an academic library and I'm gradually trying to
evolve our pages to better compliance with accepted standards--XHTML would
be my preference--but we're a long way from getting there. In my library
there are a number of other staff members who submit pages to me for
inclusion on our site, and sometimes these pages have abysmally bad HTML. In
the most recent instance, the librarian in question had hired a student to
do a series of finding lists in her subject area and what this student did
was absolute and utter crap. He had done more than 40 pages before giving me
any of them. I had to have MY student assistant clean them up, something she
shouldn't have had to do, IMHO. In another instance, a huge set of pages for
one library department have been done over the years by students with widely
varying levels of expertise, and no one has had the time or inclination to
deal with them.

My question is this: how many of you have written policies stating what
condition pages must be in before they are submitted to you? And, more
importantly, what kinds of things to you state in those policies? (I can
think of one thing I'd say: pages from FrontPage or Word are not
acceptable.) As far as I'm concerned, I'd really not spend much of my time
cleaning up other people's messes--cleaning up my own is time-consuming
enough--but I'd love to hear how other Web4Libbers handle this kind of
situation.

Looking forward to your responses,

Tim Smith

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