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Home 8 Design Specification
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Enhance Offerings
Accessible
- Use accessible, standards-based design for the home and top-level pages.
- Promote best practices for accessible content through the Dartmouth Web Style Guide.
- Explore options for improving accessibility, including validation tools.
- Provide a "help using our site" page with information about scaling text and other access tips.
Interactive
- Highlight interactive content, such as media, podcasts, and RSS feeds.
- Explore ways to allow user contributions, such as allowing users to submit photos for inclusion on the home page or encouraging contributions to Experience Dartmouth.
- Develop customization features, such as custom QuickLinks.
- Explore community-based tools, such as blogs and wikis.
- Provide feedback forms wherever appropriate.
Mobile
- Develop a mobile style sheet for the home and top-level pages.
- Build pages that are mobile-friendly.
- Provide content that is relevant in the mobile context, such as ring tones, wallpaper, events, and headlines.
- Explore ways to push out mobile-relevant content, such as event time/location, dining menus, bus schedules.
Social
- Look for opportunities to establish sites for community discussion: e.g., "Speak Out, Dartmouth," "Student Viewpoints."
- Explore community-based tools, such as blogs and wikis.
- Explore ways to put prospective students in contact with current students.
- Connect the Dartmouth site with external web-based Dartmouth content (e.g., Flickr, blogs, wikis).
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