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Welcome to the Queens Web Style Guide! This Guide is designed to enable you to quickly and easily craft sharp, professional-caliber pages for the Queens University of Charlotte Web site.
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The training provided by the University Relations staff and the information in this Guide, will help provide users with a basic familiarity with the Queens publishing tool.
The basic approach taken in each page of this guide is to:
- discuss a guideline or set of related guidelines,
- show, by example, the guideline(s) in action,
- explain how to achieve the effect(s) in the publishing tool, and
- discuss acceptable alternative formats and/or methods.
NEW To view the New Text Editor online tutorials, please click here.
NEW Please follow the Editorial Guidelines as you are your Web page(s). Please click here to review these
guidelines.
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Site Design Philosophy
The ideal goal for Queens' Web site is for every page to have its own unique "flavor" without interrupting the overall flow of the site.
Consider the example of a print publication such as Time Magazine. Pages in Time appear in a variety of formats — the Letters page does not look like the Cover Story, and both differ from the Notebook section or the back-page Essay. Yet there is never a doubt that you are reading Time Magazine from page to page. You're not suddenly confronted with a page dressed in Wired's neons and metallics, or Raygun's illegible design anarchy, or Seventeen's bubbly graphics and flowery fonts.
Time always looks like Time because they adhere to certain basic design guidelines: font size and face, margins, headline styles, limited color palette, photo captions and borders, etc. By following the guidelines on each page — while perhaps bending just one rule here or there — they maintain consistency while allowing individual pages to "pop" (or recede) in different ways.
It is my hope that this Style Guide will do the same for the Queens Web site.
Clint Patterson
Web Support & Development Coordinator
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