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Identify your audience. [UW-Stout's audiences]
Identify the needs of your audience, and follow our content conventions to organize your home page.
Place your "call to action" in a prominent spot on your home page. (If you have no call to action, revisit the purpose of the page).
Do this from the perspective of your audience, rather than from your own organizational structure, reporting needs, or processes.
Consult with the Web coordinator to streamline this process, and to make sure your content is:
- presented appropriately within the context of the entire university
- is not present elsewhere on the Web site in a different form.
This process prevents the duplication of official UW-Stout information from different offices or perspectives.
Review and update your site on a schedule
CommonSpot allows you to both schedule and expire content, and to set "freshness reminders" for yourself to review and update your site. You can also use these features for time-bound content, or material that comes and goes on your site.
Questions about official program and course descriptions? Contact the Provost's office.
Supplementary information for program Web sites is welcome, and must follow university identity standards. Contact Don (steffend; x1239) if you would like to add features or information to your program site.
Academic and curricular information is published by the program director in cooperation with Don Steffen, the university editor. All Web authors must:
- link to the official information
- not re-write or re-create similar documents or course descriptions
- refer to
degree programs by their official name.
assistance is available to establish and format these. Please contact Barbara Button, the web coordinator, if you would like to add sections to your site.
Faculty and instructors create their profile page in CommonSpot, which serves as an individual home page.
The university provides consistent formatting for contact information, department staff and links to program sites for all academic departments. Departments may conduct basic editing and maintenance on their own sites, or send additions and edits to the webmaster group.
Additional pages or sections are welcome, and
already posted elsewhere, please check with the web coordinator, Barbara Button, before publishing institution-level information or announcements to the public. We will help you coordinate the linking and publishing of your content so that our site is clear and consistent for users.
Administrative offices and support units produce their own sites using CommonSpot in cooperation with the Web coordinator and in accordance with the UW-Stout Identity Standards.
To make sure you do not duplicate content that is