Web Home Pages-Summary

[Sheryl Sieracki <ssierack -at- ARINC -dot- COM>]

          Thanks to those who responded to my query about developing
          a corporate policy governing my company's
          soon-to-be-deployed home page.  Several people asked me to
          post a summary, so here it is.

          As I said in my original post, there is lots of stuff
          available regarding page design, and some of the folks who
          responded pointed me to some of that--some of which I had
          already seen.  Some good sites are:

          Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual--
          http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/Manual_Intro.HTML

          Australian National University Quality Guidelines and
          Standards for Internet Information Resources--
          http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/QltyHome.html

          WWW Virtual Library--
          http://WWW.Stars.com/Vlib/Providers/Style.html

          However, my objective was not to create a policy governing
          page style, required elements, graphics file formats, etc.
          That's being done by my coworker (to whom I forwarded
          information about the URLs I received).  My document is a
          short, high-level corporate policy (to go in the policy and
          procedures manual) that provides the company's philosophy
          regarding our web presence, including *general*
          responsibilities of involved parties.

          Most of what I found is from universities.  As expected, not
          many corporations (that I could find) post their internal
          policies on the web.  Information that was useful came from:

          Brown University--
          http://www.brown.edu/webmaster/wpolicy.html

          Virginia Tech--
          http://jp.unirel.vt.edu/webguide/reqrec2.html

          National Institutes of Health, Division of Computer Research &
          Technology--
          http://tmp.dcrt.nih.gov/dcrt/eidp/guidelines/html

          So, for those of you who asked me to pass on my findings, I'd
          suggest that you check out the above sites--and the ones that
          some of these sites point to--and also perform your own
          searches on the web.  The stuff you find will give you a good
          starting point from which you can develop something specific
          to your organization.

          Sheryl Sieracki
          ssierack -at- arinc -dot- com
          ARINC
          Annapolis, Maryland