New Penn State Web Design Guide Now Online
August 22, 2000
University Park, Pa. - Penn State Web designers looking for the University's official guidelines and policies on designing Web pages now have a place to find them - on the Web, naturally. The Web-based guide also includes digitized graphics that can be used on University Web pages and helpful resources for Web design.

Steve MacCarthy, executive director of University Relations at Penn State, said the guide is intended for Penn State faculty, staff, and students, for use in developing Web pages for departments, colleges, and other official University units. "We have put a lot of effort into getting input into the Web design guide from across the University — from Webmasters to administrators to publications experts - and we're confident this guide will be a great resource for University Web page designers," MacCarthy said.

The guide is a joint effort of the Office of University Relations and the Center for Academic Computing. Among the issues covered by the guide: content of Web pages, copyright laws, University policies, and electronic surveys. It also includes a list of guides and resources and a search engine.

Also, Penn State has created a listserve called "WebTalk," for Webmasters, Web designers and site administrators and others who work on Penn State Web sites. You can sign up for WebTalk -- an open, unmoderated list that -- by simply sending an email from your Penn State account to " ." In the body of the message, type "subscribe webtalk yourfullrealname." You will get an automated confirmation message, and will begin receiving messages sent to the list.

Penn State's new Web page design page can be found at http://www.psu.edu/ur/webstyleguide. Questions and suggestions may be directed to Doug Stanfield, information technology coordinator for University Relations, at .