Web Standards

LRI Common Template:

Web pages should make use of the Institute's templates. This will provide any web page of the LRI web site and its sub-sites with:

  • A consistent global or site-wide navigation system;
  • Approved Cleveland Clinic logos;
  • Departmental sub-site navigation and branding

Technical Requirements:

  1. File names require the extension ".php", otherwise the web server will not be able to parse the template's code.
  2. File names should be lowercase, short and descriptive.
  3. File names cannot contain tabs, spaces or any of the following characters:
    / \ : ? < > | " ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) + = { } [ ] ' , .

Common Sense Recommendations:

  1. Keep pages up-to-date.
  2. Always check the spelling.
  3. Know your target audiences.
  4. Use the available styles provided by the global Cascading Style Sheets file, so that web pages will be consistent and viewable in most browsers.
  5. Less is more: try to find the right balance between a thousand words and a thousand images.
  6. Crop and resize images to minimize download time and apply a sharpening filter to keep the images crisp (see this tutorial).
  7. Try to preview your pages in more than one browser, such as Camino, Chrome, Firefox, Galeon, Internet Explorer, Konqueror, Opera, Safari, etc.) and on different platforms, such as Windows, Macintosh, UNIX or Linux.