Standards, Guidelines, and Help for CHS Web Authors

Please review all the documents below, and check out the links, before designing or re-designing any web pages or sites.

Tools

• CHS Page Maker (quick way to create new pages)
• Image Rotator Script (from the Human Sciences homepage)
• Link Checker (checks for broken links)
• Web Page Speed Analysis (Tests how long it takes to load your site)
• HTML Tidy Online (cleans up messy HTML)
• Accessibility Tools (The Bobby "WebXact" accessibility evaluation tool was taken offline in February 2008, after IBM purchased Watchfire. IBM says that a replacement is under development. In the meantime, Accessites.org offers these helpful guides and tools for ensuring that people with disabilities can access your site.)

PDF Documents to Download

• Getting Started
• General Tutorial, booklet that walks new users through the CHS template process, including helpful tips for avoiding common problems
• Dreamweaver tutorials
  • Create a Managed Site
  • Creating a New File Inside Your Managed Site
  • Set a Page to be a Template for Your Site
  • Create a New Page Based on Your Template
• How to connect and upload pages to the virtual server
• Streaming Media Instructions for Audio and Video
• Listing of virtual locker Pages by unit or department

Help Forms

• CHS Communications Job Request Form (to request help from Cathy's group).
• ISU Index Forms (to request additions/deletions of links on the university-level web index).

Other: (Guides,Templates,University Downloads)

• Iowa State University Web Guide.
• Iowa State University Downloads. (Scout, Sidecar, etc)
• Sample Pages and Templates.

External Tutorials

• **Basic Dreamweaver Video Tutorials**
• Beginner HTML Tutorial
• Another HTML Tutorial
• HTML Tag Reference