FIU Web best practices – Part 1 : General site tips

I am going to go over a number of best practices for FIU sites the topics will include:

• General site tips
• Site content
• Site security
• Advertising
• Accessibility

General site tips

All University Websites Should Contain the Following Minimum Requirements:

• The University’s complete name — Florida International University — on the website.
• An “FIU Home Page” link (http://www.fiu.edu) at the bottom of the site.
• Consistent internal site navigation and include a link to the site’s own home page on every page of the website.
• A contact name with an e-mail address. The designated e-mail recipient should check and answer e-mail sent to this address within a reasonable period. The contact e-mail address may be supplemented by a contact name and/or telephone number. In unusual cases where an e-mail address is unavailable, a contact name and telephone number must be substituted for a contact e-mail address. Generic e-mail addresses should be used in website contact information with more than one person monitoring the website inbox for contacts. Departments / units should develop appropriate standards for responding to website e-mail. A technical or content contact should have the authority to resolve problems reported with respect to a site.
• A faculty or staff member must be designated as holding primary responsibility for each department’s or unit’s website and timely updates of its content.
• All site urls must be registered or updated in the FIU website  A-Z index located at http://fiu.edu/atoz
• The date (month, day, year) the material was last updated.

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