[WEB4LIB] RE: Standards for Web Page Submission

[Robin Boulton]

That's interesting...we are about to release the first few pages of our 
intranet, and we are going to use that as our test bed for a low-end CMS, 
with the goal of getting staff to use it eventually for more widespread 
publishing on the Library web site.


At 08:55 AM 11/26/2002 -0800, Pons, Lisa (PONSLM) wrote:
>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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