Web Design & Development
Web content maintenance
Send all web requests to vet-webmaster@cornell.edu
How to request a web page
Send all web requests to vet-webmaster@cornell.edu
If you want a new website, here are some guidelines:
Think about who you want to reach and what information you want them to receive.
Is there a specific audience you want to reach?
How comfortable might they be as a whole with web sites?
For faculty/staff and most of the public at large the answer is pretty familiar.
Do you need special requirements to make things visually or verbally accessible?
Collect the stuff you want to put up on your website and do some basic organization.
Items can be: Your words, your images, images that you own, documents, and links to other pages. Remember you're probably going to need an introduction of some sort to let people who aren't familiar with your group/project get a quick grasp of what these pages are about. While it sounds simple, this can be difficult - so give it some time.
Remember we can always link to other documents, .pdf format is usually the best for items that you do not want to be altered. And we can link to other sites... if there is someone out there with a "great" site for something, it's usually better to link to that site instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.
How to communicate your ideas to the person who builds your site.
It's best NOT to use a web page generator, nor PowerPoint or other presentation programs. What does work best is a Word document drawn up as a plain handout. This allows you to group information you want to see together on one page with the related images. You don't have to do any sophisticated layout. It also allows the person working with your page to work
directly with your words and not all the extra markup put in by webpage creation
programs.
Images for the web
In general .gif and .jpg are the most widely recognized and supported formats. Please limit yourself to these. Another format that can be used is .png It has both advantages
and disadvantages...
For a rundown on all these formats read this quick summary
Remember, every computer screen is 72dpi... so photos/images should be no more than 72dpi. And the vet college works to a 720 pixel wide standard on the screen, so please keep images under 720 pixels wide. If you have an image over 720 pixels, and you can't crop or make it smaller in any way, don't fret, we can try to work something out.
Once you have the majority of what you want to say... then getting together with your designer is a key part of the process. It helps to communicate your preferences and expectations. And it helps the idea generating process.
