Web and E-mail Publishing Checklists

Web publishing checklist

Include the white wordmark on maroon background at the top of Web pages; see Graphic Standards, Required for Web Pages, and U Web Policies
Include the equal opportunity statement, copyright, date of last revision, and link to U privacy statement in the footer; see Required for Web Pages and U Web Policies
Test and validate your Web pages; see Testing and Validation
Make sure your pages are accessible; see Accessibility

Mass e-mail must be sent as multipart (HTML and text) or text only; see Message Coding
Include the wordmark at the top of HTML e-mail parts; see Graphic Standards
Include 'University of Minnesota' in text at the top of text e-mail parts; see Text Standards
Include an opt-out link when applicable; see Mailing Lists
Include name and address of sending unit; see Mailing Lists
Use tables for layout of HTML e-mail; see Message Coding
Use inline styles to style text in HTML e-mail; see Message Coding
Message width for HTML e-mail should be 500 to 650 pixels; see Message Size

WEB_TEMPLATES: Discuss UofM templates and standards.

WEB-PEOPLE: Web developer and designer discussion list.

CSS-DEV: Discuss cascading style sheets.

WEBSTATS: Discussion of University-wide stats.

WEBDEV: News and information about Web design and development from UMD's Laura Carlson.

UMCONTENT-USERS: Support list for UMContent content management system users.

STELLENT-METADATA:
Each unit using UMContent is required to have a metadata representative on this list.

UMCONTENT-SITEBUILDERS
Discuss site building guidelines and best practices for CSS layouts and fragments in UMContent.