Sample Spec (UIUC)
Target Audience
Potential Students, Faculty, Staff, Current Students, and citizens of the State of Illinois. (this should really have *one* primary audience identified.)
Site Goals
- Make helpful content available- improve site usability, organization, and quality of content
- Introduce useful features-search, maps, calendar, "Illinois In Focus"
- Represent the campus positively-by revealing our core mission and values
- Establish a feedback loop-to lay the groundwork for future improvement
Target monitor resolution
800 x 600
Target browser
Explorer 6 (First draft of the site will be tested in Explorer 6.0. By launch it should work on all browsers below)
Platform and Browser compatability expectations
PC: IE6, IE5.5, IE 5.0, N7, N6
Mac: IE 5, N7, N5, safari
and work ok for screenreaders (aka: In opera w/ images turned off and user styles applied to page)
Page Size
homepage: <65k
template pages: <45k
feature pages: <45k
- tables must linearize in logical fashion
- all images must have alt tags for content or link images or "" for layout images
- use "skip navigation" links
- whenever possible, use css, not html for styling
- no frames
- use text instead of images for navigation
- no pull-down menus
- text boxes have <label> tags
- use "submit" buttons for forms instead of JS submit
- all data tables should have
- caption tag
- th tags
- <td headers ="x">
Modular areas for homepage include
- Illinois in the News
- headline of the day
- Calendar
- Announcements and Chancellor Announcements
Modular areas on 2nd Level pages for
- Calendar section
- Maps section
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