Webpage+Development+Guidelines

Printable Version Louisa County Public Schools Web Page Guidelines Protocol/Responsibility General Requirements  Content Standards Technical Standards
 * Each school is responsible for the development and updates of their pages.
 * The Technology Department will offer training and support for designated staff members.
 * A listing of the e-mail address and phone number for each staff member will be posted and updated by the Technology Department. Schools will link to this page.
 * Each page should contain the date for the last update.
 * Each school is responsible for acquiring permission from parents before posting a student’s name, picture, art, written work, voice, verbal statements or video.
 * Names will not appear with student’s pictures.
 * All web pages on the Louisa County Public Schools’ web server are the property of the school district.
 * Pages that contain time-sensitive information, such as calendars, events, staff information, must be updated monthly to insure current, accurate information.
 * Web pages should be checked monthly to make sure that links work and graphics load.
 * All web pages will have a title (this appears in the title bar of the browser).
 * Each school’s main homepage should include the school’s name, address, phone number, and a link back to the school district’s main site.
 * The web pages hosted by Louisa County Public School are for educational purposes only.
 * All web pages hosted by the school should not contain information that is in violation of the district’s computer acceptable use policy, local, state, or federal regulation or law.
 * Unauthorized use of copyrighted material is prohibited.
 * Personal information (home address & phone numbers) for staff and students will not be posted.
 * Links to staff, volunteer or student personal home pages are not allowed. Links to educational sites maintained by staff will be evaluated on an individual basis.
 * Web masters have the authority to remove pages with questionable content until the school’s administration reviews the page and approves it.
 * All web pages must be free of spelling and grammatical errors.
 * Web pages must not contain objectionable material or link directly to objectionable material as specified in the Louisa County Public Schools Acceptable Computer System Use Policy and Regulation.
 * A teacher sponsor is responsible for proof reading a student’s web pages prior to submitting them for posting.
 * Pages will not contain student e-mail addresses.
 * All links must point to meaningful and appropriate educational sites.
 * Web pages and supporting files should fit on a floppy disk. Larger web pages can be evaluated on a case by case basis.
 * Incomplete web pages will not be posted.
 * Pages should be designed for an 800 by 600 screen resolution with no scroll bars at the bottom of the screen
 * If the web page is intended for printing then it should be sized at 560 pixels
 * Pages should load quickly and easily. The use of images and animations should be kept to a minimum to insure that pages load completely.
 * A file structure should be in place to separate all web pages.
 * All images should be located in a separate folder named images
 * The main page should be named index.htm or index.html.
 * All pages should be named in lower-case letters with words separated by the underscore (_).
 * File names should be eight (8) characters or less.
 * Alt tags will be use with all images.