Preface:
Call 826-5138 for a consultation for:

• Figuring out where to begin
• Assistance with web site accessibility (universal access)
• Assistance in locating design and personnel resources
• Assistance in reviewing web sites in-progress for policy compliance
• Primers on university style
• Questions of university policy and web style
• Requests to be linked on HSU's top-level pages
• Review and feedback of your web site
• Violations of web policy

Web Accessibility

• Beyond Alt Text report

Surveys

• Color-blindness survey

• Introduction and general topics
• Headers and footers
• Page elements
• Content

• Humboldt Web Style Guide
• Humboldt WWW Publishing Policy
• Humboldt Guidelines for Responsible Computing (appropriate use policy)
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Works by the Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems.
• Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Annual Admissions and Records memorandum
• Family Policy Compliance Group - addresses law on disclosure of student information.
• Use of Electronic Data Interchange under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act from the University of Southern Mississippi. Additional student information disclosure concerns.

• Web safe color chart for choosing background and font colors that will display consistently across platforms.
• Beginner's guide to HTML From the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Yale web style guide

  Page Validation

• W3C HTML Validation Service - analyze your pages for HTML standards compliance

  Accessibility

• Designing an Accessible World. Tips from the Trace Research and Development Center on designing pages to accomodate people with disabilties.
• Web Accessibility Initiative - Guidelines for making pages accessible to all people
• Bobby HTML Analyzer - compares your HTML coding against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for disabled access.
• Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - guidelines for making web pages accessible to people with disabilities

  Articles

• How Users Read on the Web (they don't) - article by Jakob Neilsen
• How to Avoid Foolish Consistency - article discussing a balance between usability and consistency
• Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time) - article by Jakob Nielsen
• Navigation labels - Web Review article

  Usability

• Useit.com - articles by usability guru Jakob Nielsen
• Useable Web - directory of web usability articles

• Departmental template
  For use by departments, programs, organizations, auxiliaries and associated units of Humboldt State University.
• Organization template
  For use by student clubs and other organizations not covered by the department template.
• Individual template
  For use by individuals (personal courtesy accounts for University personnel, students, etc.).
• If you're uncertain about which template to use, ask the webmaster.