Standards/Guidelines

Standards for the UC Berkeley Library website
Guidelines for the UC Berkeley Library website

Standards

The following standards have been approved by the Web Implementation Group. These and subsequent standards shall apply to all directories, sub-directories and files created after November 13, 2002.

Copyright statement
File Structure by type
Melvyl
Metadata
Tags
URLs

Copyright statement
All HTML files shall include the copyright statement:

Copyright © YYYY The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

File Structure by type
If applicable, each directory shall contain the following sub-directories:

• docs
• forms
• images
• media
• pdfs
• styles
• xls
• xtrafiles

Melvyl
Pages with significant Melvyl-related content should include the full trademark statement somewhere on the page: "Melvyl® is a registered trademark of The Regents of the University of California."

Other than that, the ® is not required next to the word "Melvyl" and should be edited out as pages are updated.

Metadata
All HTML files shall contain "keyword" and "description" meta tags.
[Examples of meta tags]

Tags

• If possible, the <title> tag shall follow the pattern: Subject-Library or Library Unit-Campus.
  Example: Research Guides-Teaching Library-University of California, Berkeley
• All tags shall be lower case and have ending tags.
• All tag attributes shall be enclosed in quotation marks.
• All image tags in a web page are required by Section 508 to include an alt text attribute. More information.

URLs

• ".html" shall be the extension used for all static HTML files.
• Lower case letters shall be used for all directory, sub-directory and file names.
• Underscores shall be used to separate words in a file name if needed.
• URLs shall be less than 78 characters.
• URLs shall not contain the special characters %, *, &, #, ! 

Guidelines

The following guidelines are recommended by the Library Web Services Manager and the Web Advisory Group (WAG).

• Accessibility in web design
  A comprehensive resource from About.com.
• Browser Testing Guidelines for Library Web Contributors
• Content Owner/Maintainer Guidelines for Library Web pages
• Copyright Guidelines for Library Web Contributors
• Copyright, the Internet and the Web
  (UC Office of Technology Transfer)
• Design Style Guide for Library Web Contributors (pdf)
• Editorial Style Guide for Library Web Contributors (pdf)
• Last Updated Guideline for Library Web Contributors
• Secure Content and Private Areas Guidelines
• UC Berkeley Library Website Guiding Principles
• UC Berkeley Library Website Mission, Goals and Scope