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Policies and Guidelines

The HomeTeam maintains policies and guidelines to support Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students who manage websites on behalf of Dartmouth.

Social Media Guidelines
Guidelines for strategy, editorial style, and tracking and maintenance
Guidelines for Interaction on Dartmouth Social Media Websites
How to manage interaction on social media websites on behalf of Dartmouth
Guidelines for Publishing Dartmouth-Generated Media
When permission is or is not required to publish Dartmouth-generated media on the Internet
License and Warranty (PDF)
When permission is required, use this release form!

We're always running into interesting research and articles on the web. Feel free to share with us sometime.

Offer fewer links
An Email Minute, January 20, 2006
First Impressions Count in Website Design
WebSiteOptimization.com, January 17, 2006
Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign
by Cameron Moll, A List Apart, October 24, 2005
Testing the Three-Click Rule
by Joshua Porter, User Interface Engineering, April 16, 2003

Usability Return on Investment (5.2MB PDF) Kerberos Required
By Jakob Nielsen and Shuli Gilutz
Cost/benefit analysis of usability-based web design
This document is available to Dartmouth affiliates through a site license. Those outside Dartmouth can purchase the report from NN/g.

HomeTeam research
Surveys, research reviews, and more
The Loyalty Elephant
by Steve Hoisington and Earl Naumann, American Society for Quality, February 2003
How College-Bound Prospects Perceive University Web Sites
by Michael Poock and Dennis Lefond, AACRAO's College & University Journal, Summer 2001