Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS)
Institute of Advanced Studies,
The Australian National University (ANU),
Canberra ACT 0200
Coombsweb Publishing
Standards & Guidelines
by
T.Matthew Ciolek, RSPAS
&
Helen Walker, RSSS
Draft document version 1.00
Comments and revisions are invited from members
of the RSSS/RSPAS
electronic publishing community.
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This document has been prepared for use by members of the Joint
Schools. It is based on wide-ranging practical and theoretical
experience gained by the authors during the last three years of
designing, constructing, managing and maintaining Coombsweb - ANU Social
Sciences Server, as well as from information collected by the
famous Information
Quality WWW Virtual Library
It remains, of course, a work-in-progress since it is going to be
regularly amended and refined in the view of the current as well as future
electronic publishing needs and strategies of individuals and departments
within both Schools.
Please send any suggestions or comments to
Helen Walker (helen@coombs.anu.edu.au)
These standards are intended to be used by the RSSS/RSPAS Web Editors
as basic design and layout guidelines to be followed in publishing
web pages on the Coombsweb server. Following this set of standards will
also help to keep the pages consistent and simplify document
maintenance. The objective is to create a professional Web publishing
site whilst maintaining a consistent "face" to the public.
It is strongly recommended that the Coombsweb WWW
Page Template is used as a basic starting point when constructing
web pages which are going to be placed on the Coombsweb server.
- Coombsweb was established in January 1994, as one of the first
specialist Social Sciences and Asian Studies web servers in the world. Since then
it has become one of the most prestigeous and frequently used and quoted scholarly
online information system.
- We would like to continue developing a Web Site that is professional, with
high quality information that is easy to access and navigate. In short - a
site that is useful, reliable, attractive and has many readers.
- Not all Web users use modern desktop computers with the latest
in graphic displays and high-speed modems, nor do they all use the
same Web-browsing software. We therefore need to use standard
versions of the HTML (mark-up language), avoid formatting/presentation gimmicks, reduce
unnecessary graphic images, simplify those we do use and provide
alternative ways for access to information depicted graphically.
- Users may use different types of hardware platforms. Web editing
has to take this into consideration, and all pages must be tested on
several different platforms and screen sizes.
Last updated: 4 March 1998
Page Maintainer: Helen Walker (helen@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Copyright © 1997 by Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS & IT Services Unit, RSSS, ANU. This Web page may be linked to any
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