IG Web Guidelines

WLA Online invites all WLA Interest Groups to develop web pages for the Association's web site. Those Interest Groups wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to provide on-line information to their members may publish their newsletters, meeting announcements, or any other information consistent with WLA Online's purpose of providing "WLA members with up-to-date information on the Association, its activities, and related library links."

The following WLA Board-adopted documents govern WLA Online and IG home pages. They're available on-line and from Association Coordinator Association Coordinator.

  1. WLA Publications Guidelines
  2. World Wide Web Site Guidelines   Word  |  PDF

In addition, Interest Groups must follow the technical procedures below when creating web pages and transmitting them to the WLA Webmaster for posting. Please direct any questions related to the technical procedures to the WLA Webmaster (Webmaster).

WLA Online Interest Group Home Page Technical Procedures

  1. When naming HTML files use the 4 letter ".html" extension (rather than ".htm").
  2. Keep files names 20 characters or less (not including the extension).
  3. Use only letters, numbers or the hyphen (-) and underscore (_) symbols in file names.
  4. Do not include spaces in file names.
  5. Lowercase all files names.
  6. Lowercase all html tags and tag attributes.
  7. Enclose all tag attribute values in double quotation marks.
  8. Use relative links whenever possible.
  9. Correctly nest your tags.
  10. Include closing tags for every element that can contain other tags or content, this includes:
    </p>, </li>, </td>, </tr>, </table> tags for every corresponding <p>, <li>, <td>, <tr>, <table> tag.
  11. Name the your main page "index.html".
  12. Additional subdirectories may be included or requested.
  13. Forms and pages requiring scripts need to be preapproved and coordinated with the webmaster.
  14. PowerPoint presentations should be uploaded as powerpoint files rather than as saved html pages.
  15. Include the following text in the first two lines of your html document:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
	      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
  16. Include the following text as the first line immediately following the opening body tag:
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/includes/igheader.js"></script>
  17. Include the following text as the last line immediately preceding the closing body tag:
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/includes/igfooter.js"></script>
  18. Files can be transferred to the WLA Webmaster via the following methods:
    1. included in the body of an email message
    2. sent as email attachments
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