Policy, Procedures, & Guidelines
The following documents and links are provided for all those who are considering building or are currently building a university hosted website.
THE WEBSITE POLICY
All websites hosted by NJCU are governed by regulations set forth in this policy document.
WEBSITE REQUEST FORM
Student Organization, Academic website, Administration website, Sponsored websites, Faculty Site, or Student website. Request your website to be hosted by NJCU by filling out this request form and submitting it to the Web Coordinator for processing.
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES
All web developers building a website hosted on university servers must follow these guidelines. Specific instructions are provided for each type of website that may be built on university systems.
HOSTED WEBSITE CHECKLIST
Make sure your site is ready to go 'live'
Build A Website (Departments, Faculty and Others)
BUILD A WEBSITE
You can easily build a website for your department, etc. (as well as faculty member websites) by using an easy to use online application. Note: If you can create a Word document, you can use this easy to use online application to build a website.
See a sample website here - which includes the following features. (If you would like a quick and closer look at this sample website demo, please contact Help Desk.)
Standard features:
- NJCU Header (at the top) and Disclaimer and other information (at the bottom), already in place.
- NJCU Quick Links - are already in place at the top of all pages.
- NJCU Primary Links - are already in place at the top of all pages, for easy navigation.
Pus these following features:
- Your own custom graphic banner will be created for your website - to appear on all pages.
- A separate and easy to use navigation bar (on the left, going down) for your website pages and content.
- An easy to use website editing application. No techie stuff to know. As stated above, if you can use Microsoft Word, you'll be able to learn how to use this easy to use website building application.
- You'll be able to add your own photos to your website, upload documents, add pages, delete pages, edit pages, etc. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all at your own convenience.
- Then, at the bottom of all pages (without you having to do anything), users will have the ability to email a link to any of your web pages to a friend, etc., also to bookmark any of your web pages, and a convenient way to quickly print out your web pages.
For more information on getting started and for a quick training session on how to get your website up quickly and easily, please contact the Help Desk by email or by phone at x4357.
Want to learn how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to build a website? Contact the Center for Instructional & Technological Innovation (CITI) for a course in Macromedia Dreamweaver, as well as other web design courses.
Logos, & Pictures
LOGOS
To download the New Jersey City University logo version of your choice:
Macintosh: click, hold, and drag the logo to your desktop. Or click and hold and respond to pop-up menu as to what to do with logo image.
PC: right click on the image and respond to the prompt to save the image on your hard drive.
the NJCU logo in Green
the NJCU logo in Black
the NJCU logo in 2 colors
OFFICIAL NJCU PHOTOGRAPHS
If photographs of NJCU are needed to complete your website, please browse and use professional quality images from our Image Library.
COLORS
The traditional colors of NJCU are green and gold, represented in print
by Pantone [TM] or PMS [TM] (Pantone Matching System) colors. The closest
hexadecimal color equivalents are shown below.
| Green | PMS 561 | HEX #07574C |
| Gold | PMS 129 | HEX #CC9900 |
A palette of additional ink colors are used in NJCU print publications.
You may wish to include one or more of these additional colors in your
web page to help project a consistent image.
| Red | PMS 703 | HEX #CC3333 |
| Blue | PMS 659 | HEX #6699CC |
| Violet | PMS 2577 | HEX #9966CC |
| Orange | PMS 718 | HEX #CC6600 |
FONTS
Graphically, consistent use of fonts goes a long way in projecting a unified institutional image.
Futura is used in printed publications for NJCU and is recommended for headlines; Georgia is recommended for body copy in print publications.
To display standard (body style) text on website pages, the recommended fonts are those in the
Sans-Serif font family, which include
ARIAL, VERDANA, FUTURA and HELVETICA.
When presenting text on a website, it is recommended that fonts be set in a manner that allows them to be resizable by the user. This means that the size of the font should be set using relative size formatting (i.e., 100%, 90%, or 1em, or .9em, etc.) as opposed to fixed size formatting (i.e., 10pt, 12px, etc.).
Support, References & Links
APPLICATIONS
These applications are helpful to have installed on your hard drive to assist in the viewing of PDF documents, and any attached multimedia files that are compressed and linked to web pages or email:
HELPFUL LINKS
With different platforms and internet browsers, you will find sometimes your web page features will not be compatible with all users. Here are some useful links discussing and charting those incompatibilities.
SAMPLE PAGES
Below are pages that meet the website guidelines of NJCU:
CONTACTS
DIVISION WEB STEWARDS:
- Academic Affairs, Jo Bruno, VP Academic Affairs (Acting)
- Administration and Finance, Phyllis Szani, Director, Department of Information Technology
- University Advancement. Ronald Bogusz, Director, Publication
- Student Affairs, John Melendez, VP, Student Affairs
