Standalone Site Software
In an effort to support, extend and maintain UNH brand standards, the UNH HTML toolkit is intended to help create a static HTML website in keeping with the UNH graphic identity. The toolkit is not required, but all standalone sites hosted on UNH servers must follow all requirements listed in this standard.* The toolkit is the easiest way to ensure this compliance.
Getting Server/Toolkit Access
To receive permission to set up a standalone site and/or access to the toolkit, the following must apply:
- UNH-branded, UNH-affiliated sites only
- UNH staff or faculty must request/sponsor the site for a department or organization with demonstrated need
- Demonstrated competence at maintaining and updating the website
- No existing parent Drupal site where the material can be posted
- No existing site/application that covers the same material or offers the same functionality
- Willingness to follow site requirements
- Agree with usage policies
- Submit for review prior to launch
Requirements for Sites
Below is a checklist for requirements for a standalone site. Click on linked items to read the associated standard.
- Approved domain/web application name
- Designated site owner and replacement
- Approved usage of logos and branding
- Logo, masthead, title, h1, h2, basic styles must follow main .css styles
- Top navigation/menus must appear consistently on every page
- Must include a link back to unh.edu
- Required global footer elements: Privacy, Terms of use, Contact info, TTY number
- Digital color palette
- Website must be full screen (1200 or 1400 pixels)
- Digital font
- Link to or ingest from one single source of content when available (i.e. courses, faculty, UNH Today)
- Do not duplicate content from other sites or on your own site
- Do not use the site for any commercial activity or display any ads. Any commercial or revenue-generating use of UNH logos or names must be approved through UNH Innovation's Trademark Licensing.
- Review schedules for timeliness, accuracy, and freshness of content
- Yearly site reviews (see Responsibility for Content below)
- Mobile compliance
- ADA compliance
- Copyright compliance (must have permission to use photos and videos)
- Other UNH and USNH policy compliance
Strongly Recommended
Support
The toolkit and standalone sites are offered as a self-service tool. For support for standalone sites, please contact WMD.
Training
Anyone working on a standalone site who has questions about how to use the toolkit or post a certain kind of content is welcome to attend the open walk-in training and help sessions that Academic Technology offers in support of Drupal. For a schedule of the training sessions and walk-in times, see the Academic Technology training calendar.
Responsibility for Content
Standalone websites are created by members of the University community acting as official representatives of the University of New Hampshire. Site owners are responsible for complying with all relevant laws, University policies, and this standard.
If no edits have been made to a standalone unh.edu website in a year, email notifications will be sent to the site owner. The owner will have 30 days to log into the site, or the site will be unpublished. Owners can request that the site be republished. If it is not republished, the site will be deleted after 1 year. Four notification emails will be sent out at 30 days, 2 weeks, 1 week, and 1 day prior to the site being unpublished.
Archiving
Standalone sites will be archived for two years.
Violations
Although UNH does not monitor or regularly review standalone site content, it reserves the right to remove any content that it considers to violate this Standard or any other UNH policies.
If inappropriate content is discovered, UNH WMD will contact the site owner to discuss the issue. When content is obviously unacceptable, UNH WMD will immediately remove the content prior to contacting the site owner. Unacceptable entries also may cause standalone site access to be suspended.
Reports regarding inappropriate content may be sent to WMD.
*Sites that existed prior to the posting of this standard are grandfathered in. AT/IT encourages site owners of existing sites to comply with this standard, and AT/IT reserves the right to require existing sites to comply with this standard.
