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SENS Style

Introduction

In the SENS Web Guidelines, you read the recommendations for making your web site meet the standards that SENS has established for web sites on its servers. The standards include recommendations for:

• Construction,
• Design,
• Usability,
• Accessibility,
• Maintenance, and
• Professionalism.

The criteria are not necessarily listed in order of importance. While usability and accessibility are arguably the most important, construction and design are listed first because their integral components are XHTML and CSS. If your site has a strong background of valid XHTML and CSS, usability and accessibility issues will be minimized. The purpose of the SENS Style Guide is to give you some ideas and resources that you can use to make your site easy to use for as many visitors as possible. Follow the links below to get detailed information on each area of the recommendations, as well as links to tools that can help you create great web sites!

Find out more

• Construction: Find out more about HTML, XHTML, and CSS, and tools you can use to create web pages.
• Design: Learn to make efficient graphics, let users choose their favorite text size, and make your page scale.
• Usability: Make your site cross-browser compatible and make it degrade easily. Learn about site validation, usability guidelines, and user experience.
• Accessibility: New accessibility guidelines were mandated by New York State in June 2004. Learn how to make sure your page complies with them, and find out who this "Bobby" guy is, anyway.
• Maintenance: Just like your car and your house, your web site will fall apart if it's not maintained. Learn some ways to make sure that doesn't happen to you--even if you have three student webmasters in a year!
• Professionalism: SEAS web sites are expected to maintain a level of professionalism that reflects positively on UB and SEAS. Find out more about copyright, fair use, and plagiarism.