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Intranet Publishing Guidelines: Home Page Checklist

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• Navigation/Organization
• Style/Markup

Content

• Division Directors are responsible for the content and currency of information they approve for mounting on the Intranet. This information must comply with Agency Intranet publishing guidelines.
• When new resources are ready for EPA@Work inclusion, a metadata record may be created by Ann-Marie Bramer (bramer.annmarie@epa.gov), Intranet cataloguing supervisor.
• A responsible party contact must be published on each metadata record. Typically this person would not be the division director.
• Information within a document should be accurate.
• A document should be syntactically correct.
• Spelling and grammar should be correct.
• Language should be easily understandable.
• Information within a document should remain current.
• External links should include the title and an appropriate method of identifying the external links.







Navigation/Organization

• Each page in a collection should have a link to the collection's home page.
• Each home page should link back to the sponsoring home page.
• Each home page should have a link to the EPA@Work home page.
• ALL links should be checked periodically to avoid "dead links."
• When a page is moved to a new location a notice at the old location should link to the new location.







Style/Markup

• Every page should have a title.
• The title and top level heading for a page should be the same.
• Paragraphs should be clear and concise.
• Text highlighting (italics, bold, underline) should be used sparingly.
• Appropriate links should be provided to glossaries, indexes, footnotes, external documents, and tables of content.
• Every footer should provide logical navigational aids.
• The home page footer should include the URL for the home page.
• The home page footer should include the 'mail to' or comment button which points to someone conversant with the content of the page.
• The home page footer should include a mechanism to handle user comments.
• Pages should use standard navigational icons.
• An approved EPA logo should appear at the top left hand corner of each HTML page.
• Large documents should be logically divided, and links to large files (over 500KB) should indicate their size.
• The width and height of each image should be specified in its anchor.
• Every graphic should have an associated (ALT) text.
• Image maps must have alternate (textual) selection mechanisms.
• Audio clips must have text transcripts.

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