THE JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL INTRANET

WEB SITE VISUAL STANDARDS AND REVISION PROCEDURES

[Related: Faculty, Departmental, and Student Organization Web Site Publishing]

Visual Standards

• The web site font face is verdana. Pagaraph tags determining style can be assigned in OmniUpdate, the school's content management system, from the Format pulldown menu: p (body text), li (bulleted text), heading 1, heading 2, heading 3, etc.. When pasting in material from Word or other programs, use the "paste from Word" option in the Paste dropdown menu. To paste other material, "paste clean" option will ensure your fonts default to the school's standards. If your formatting will not apply, try clicking the "remove formatting" button first.
  
  
• Font color on the web site is black, except for heading 1, at the top of each page, which is in the official John Marshall red (the hex value is #cc0000).
  
  
• Table backgrounds can be white or #eae5d4. Table headers can be white or #d7cabd. (Example: http://www.jmls.edu/careersvcs/index.shtml.) Table borders can be invisible, black, gray, or #d7cabd.
  
  
• Heading 1 is the style for main page headings. Heading 2 or heading 3 may be used for subheadings. 
  
  
• Any use of the law school's logo or banner must follow the official visual standards: www.jmls.edu/INTRANET/ia/visualstandards.pdf. (The web site version of the masthead is different from the print version, with the logo image to the left of the text, to conserve valuable web page real estate.)
  
  
• The official "The John Marshall Law School" masthead (logo and banner) must appear at the top of all web pages. 
  
  
•  The format for all links should be:
  
  
  • unvisited link: #36648b, underlined
  • visited link: #607b8b, underlined
  • link on hover: #990000, underlined

Link attributes will be applied automatically when you create a text link in OmniUpdate.

• Breadcrumbs (a user's path in an individual section) must appear on all pages. This is taken care of automatically through OmniUpdate.
  
  
• Page layout may contain a tertiary right navigation (e.g., http://www.jmls.edu/academics/tax_eb_law/eb_law_main.shtml). This format may be selected when creating a new page.
  
  
• Images may be used on the web site after they are optimized for the web. Main web pages (e.g., each departmental home page) may have one vertical photo (or a collection of multiple photos) across the top of the page, 605 pixels wide by 134 pixels high (e.g., http://www.jmls.edu/academics/index.shtml). On pages with the tertiary right navigation, the image size is 417 pixels wide by 134 high (e.g., http://www.jmls.edu/academics/ibt_law/ibt_main.shtml).
  
  
• The official John Marshall footer must appear at the bottom of all pages.
  
  
• The global navigation buttons must appear at the top of every page under the banner.
  
  
• The left navigation must be uniform in style with the rest of the web site.
  
  
• In order to achieve proper indents for bulleted and numbered items, use the auto bullet or auto number button in OmniUpdate.

Style Issues

• Any use of phone numbers should use periods instead of hyphens between the numbers.
  
  
• Any use of the word "e-mail" shall be spelled with a hyphen.
  
  
• The term "JMLS" may not be used. Instead, "the school," "the law school," "The John Marshall Law School" or "John Marshall" should be used as appropriate.

Revision Procedures

• Each department and student organization is responsible for its own web site, including creation and maintenance of pages. Web pages should be updated as frequently as possible in order to keep the visitors coming back to the site, and the keep the school's pages very high in search engine results.
  
  
• Any photo or graphic image to be used on the web site must be optimized for the web. If you need help with optimization, contact the web site manager. Images that are not optimized and are too big will be deleted from the web site and web server.
  
  
• Web page metatags (the Description and Key Words fields in OmniUpdate that are completed when creating a new page) should include descriptors by which visitors to the school's web site, or to any search engine such as Google, might find the web page in a search.
  
  
• Any links that point to sites outside of the John Marshall web site must open in another browser window. (In OmniUpdate, choose   _blank in the target window dropdown after you have clicked on the insert link button, where you type in your linked page's url.)
  
  
• A dean must pre-approve any additions or revisions to any part of the web site. Dean McNamara oversees enforcement of web site policy and visual standards.
  
  
• Files should be checked back into OmniUpdate when work is finished.
  
  
• Since it is difficult to move existing files from one folder to another in OmniUpdate, users should ensure they are in the correct folder/directory when creating a new file.
  
  
• All online forms must utilize the OmniUpdate online interactive form function.
  
  
• Absolutely no credit card information may be accepted via the John Marshall web site.
  
  
• All web site content must adhere to The John Marshall Law School's privacy policy.
  
  
• If you encounter any problems with OmniUpdate or need help, please contact the web site manager or view the OmniUpdate tutorials and user manual.