About the Guide
Summary: The guide has been created to help web managers, maintainers and developers create well written, consistent, high quality web pages and sites for the University of Melbourne.
What's not covered
The guide does not provide information that is available from other primary sources.
- writing academic, technical or other scholarly work - other sources provide advice on academic writing
- details on logos, colours and corporate branding guidelines - available on the Marketing and Communications Brand Guidelines Systems page
- details on the use of templates with editing software such as the CMS and Dreamweaver. A University of Melbourne Web Developer's Wiki is available for this purpose.
What is this web style guide all about?
This Web Style Guide has been created to help support University web people create and maintain quality web content and sites.
How does this style guide relate to other web information?
There are a number of other providers of "style" content - the below list shows how these relate to each other.
- www.web.unimelb.edu.au >> central repository of web resources.
- Style guide >> Principles and policy. - Reference of best practices and policies of web development at the University. How things should be done and what to aim for. Updated 4 times a year - review process overseen by stakeholders.
- Web publishing resources >> Methodology, more detailed explanations of how to do things., cheat sheets and explanations of tasks. Not included in style guide but in /web.
- Tools >> Collection of online or offline applications that can be used when creating web sites at the Uni. Not included in style guide.