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ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK FOR WEB MANAGEMENT TEAMS: MAY 2002

 

Start-up kit

The start-up kit provides a small, self-contained, accessible and usable website template.

The material featured is constructed in HTML 4 employing Cascading Style Sheets [guidelines section 6.2]. It is designed for training purposes and to assist in building an active website. The kit may be re-used free-of-charge without restriction, provided the source is acknowledged.

When re-using it will be necessary for the metadata [guidelines section 1.7], PICS label [guidelines section 1.8] and version control information [guidelines section 3.2.8] tobe adjusted to meet your particular requirements.

This start-up-kit has been validated to the W3C's WAI 'A' standard, it is essential that you revalidate your pages before publishing them [guidelines section 2.4.3, section 2.4.7 and section 6.1.6]

This kit employs the recommended UK government Accesskeys standard [guidelines section 2.4.4] and has an accompanying example of graphic free Easy Access pages.

The start-up kit can be downloaded as a zip file (87kB). It has 13 files at root, eg, index.htm, whatsnew.htm, sitemap.htm etc, a css directory with two files, easyaccess directory with 8 files, images directory with two general images and logo sub-directory with 5 images, a library directory with 5 html files and two sub-directories - pdf for PDF downloables and rtf for RTF downloadables.

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For Guidelines refer to Illustrated handbook for web management teams

Refer to Framework for senior managers - a summary of main points of the Guidelines and changes from version one.

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