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Web Style Guide

Fonts

  • header & footer: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif
  • headings (h1, etc) & left hand navigation links: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif
  • body text: Georgia, Times, serif

General colors:

  • green (header border match)- color: #90A860 web color: green
  • yellow background (callout-box & sidebar match) - color:#FDFEE9 web color: yellow - callout box & sidebar
  • dark grey background (header match fade to darker color) - color: #2B2B2B web color: dark grey - header
  • dark grey background (header match fade to lighter color) - color: #5A5A5A web color: dark grey - header
  • light off-grey background (callout-box header match) - color: #B3B4A5 web color: off-grey - callout header
  • light grey background (footer match) - color: #F1F1F1 web color: light grey - footer

Element colors:

  • body text: color: #333333 web color: dark grey
  • header text: color: #ffffff web color: dark grey
  • inactive search box choices text & "ask a librarian" text: color: #999999 web color: medium grey
  • search box tip text & footer text: #666666 web color: dark grey
  • a:link, a:visited - color: #6C8044, border-bottom: 1px solid #DDDDDD example (live link)
  • a:hover - color: #333333, border-bottom: 1px solid text - color: #333333 example (psuedo hover state)
  • images -border 1px solid #B3B3B3 web color: medium grey
  • tables
    • border color: #CCCCCC, 1px solid web color: white
    • table header -color:#FDFEE9 web color: yellow - callout box & sidebar
    • header
      example td

Classes

Images

Standard inline images may be tagged with one of two classes: "image_left" and "image_right".  These two classes float the image either left or right of the text.  These are equivalent to the now deprecated align=right or align=left.  Note that the new classes actually do the opposite of the old align attribute.  image_left will flow the text to the right of the image, while image_right will flow text to the left of the image.

example: <img class="image_left" src=""/>

web color: medium greyLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fusce vel sapien. Mauris gravida tortor ut odio. Aliquam urna. Morbi consequat, justo ut tincidunt sollicitudin, magna lacus semper mauris, et tempor metus ipsum sed orci. Donec vitae mauris vel nulla fermentum fermentum. Donec diam ligula, feugiat et, aliquam id, lacinia a, purus. Maecenas dapibus tellus vel ligula tristique elementum. Quisque quam dui, ultrices at, mattis eu, dignissim sagittis, pede. Suspendisse porta massa sed metus. Maecenas orci justo, tincidunt ac, ullamcorper eu, adipiscing vitae, dui. Cras adipiscing risus et purus. Cras mattis tortor.

example:<img class="image_right" src=""/>

web color: medium greyLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fusce vel sapien. Mauris gravida tortor ut odio. Aliquam urna. Morbi consequat, justo ut tincidunt sollicitudin, magna lacus semper mauris, et tempor metus ipsum sed orci. Donec vitae mauris vel nulla fermentum fermentum. Donec diam ligula, feugiat et, aliquam id, lacinia a, purus. Maecenas dapibus tellus vel ligula tristique elementum. Quisque quam dui, ultrices at, mattis eu, dignissim sagittis, pede. Suspendisse porta massa sed metus. Maecenas orci justo, tincidunt ac, ullamcorper eu, adipiscing vitae, dui. Cras adipiscing risus et purus. Cras mattis tortor. 

For extremely wide images (widths greater than 400px), you will need to wrap the image in an additional classed paragraph tag: <p class="imagewrapper", as well as adding a class to the image tag itself: <img class="wideimage" >.  These help internet explorer deal with some rendering issues. See example.

Tables

Tables can be classed with either "left-align" or "centered_table".  You may still enter the colspan attribute manually if you need to have the header  or other row element span more than one column.  You can also click on the "merge table cells" icon merge table cells icon in the toolbar in Omni Update. Note that the <th> element is always centered in these classes.

example: left-align
header
example td another cell
 another row
 another row & cell
example: centered-table
header
example td another cell
 another row
another row & cell
example: no styling
header
example td another cell
 another row
another row & cell

 

Last Updated: 4/10/08