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ECE Web Page Standards
Some web standards:
- Use ECE, not E&CE.
- Use "the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering", not "the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department". The word "Department" is always capitalized while
the "the" is capitalization of the leading "the" is based on the
rules of English.
- Always use the URL ece.uwaterloo.ca, and not www.ece.uwaterloo.ca.
- If you need a title, use the <h1> or <h3> tag.
- If you need a directory to place files, call it files.
- Most world-visible pages should be placed in their own directory.
The index.html is
the framework while content.html is the primary contents of the page.
- If you are linking to an index.html file, leave off the index.html, for
example, for Undergraduate Studies, link to http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/Undergrad/ and
not http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/Undergrad/index.html — this looks
so unprofessional it's not funny. Also, keep the trailing slash, that is,
do not use http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/Undergrad.
- If a file cannot be placed in its own directory,
the framework should be named filename.html and
the primary contents of the page should be stored in a file named
filename.content.html.
- The title follows the standard Appropriate Title | Electrical and Computer Engineering | University of Waterloo with
appropriate variations for top-level pages.
- All pages use the same /css/ece.css style sheet.
- Use standard HTML. Do not manipulate HTML to get the perfect look.
- Every sub-main page should have a sub-menu on the left-hand side.
- In general, the left-hand menu is for internal links (to other ECE sub-pages),
while the right-hand menu is for external links. If the right-hand navigation
area has "paragraphs" describing something, then it too can contain internal links,
though these links must appear in some left-hand link.
- The content.html pages should be left justified.
- Use relative links where possible.
- For any more link, place the square brackets directly
outside the anchor tag, e.g., [<a href="...">...</a>].
- Titles will be written without periods, for example,
use Prof, Dr, BASc, MEng, MASc, PhD, and PEng as opposed to
using Prof., Dr., B.A.Sc., M.Eng., M.A.Sc., Ph.D., and P.Eng.
- When writing a phone number, use the international format
+1 519 NNN NNNN. When adding an extension, use the format
+1 519 NNN NNNN extension NNNNN.
- Classes and room numbers are always written when a space between the
alphabetic prefix and the numeric suffix. Use a if
there is a possibility of a line break, e.g., ECE 204 and
EIT 4018.