The Web Team are currently creating a set of standards that the whole team will adhere to when creating new templates, pages, forms and also when administrating the site. These same standards will be used when working with partners to develop partnership sites.
Listed below is the first version of these standards. The purpose of this is to aim for a consistency across Northamptonshire County Councils website:
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Templates |
Forms |
Pages |
Applications |
Administration |
Partnership Sites |
| Framework - Include banner, navigation, footer |
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| Tested for accessibility |
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| Tested on all resolutions |
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| Tested on all browsers |
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| Tested for speed |
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| Tested in development area |
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| Email return works |
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| Tables - header, row defined |
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| Fonts - Standard used |
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| External websites open in new window |
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| No scrolling on pages |
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| All functionality works |
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| Documents displayed correctly |
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| Contact details on right of page |
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| Links on right for menu |
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| All pages created are lowercase, no spaces, 8 characters |
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| All channels created are lowercase, no spaces, 8 characters |
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| Layout style |
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| Resource gallery setup for new channels |
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| Rights setup for new channels |
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| Alphabetical Listing of content |
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