Web Services

Publishing Guidelines

The MATC Website provides information about the services of the college and supports MATC's vision, mission and values (see About the MATC Website). Most pages of the site are intended and designed for the public. However, to offer convenient access for MATC students and employees, the current MATC site provides links to information designed for instructional and employee support.

Different publishing criteria apply to the public, instructional (Class Resources) and employee (Employee Resources) sections of the MATC website. Please review the guidelines linked below that apply to your intended audience* and then complete and submit the online Web Publishing Request Form.

If you need a website for instructional or employee information purposes, contact your functional area Web Coordinator. Your coordinator will assist you with assigning a web address according to MATC's standard naming structure. This naming structure was established in April, 2000 to improve the organization and security of our web server. Here's an example of the standard naming structure:

matcmadison.edu/functional area/subfunction/authorlastname/filename

• Functional area refers to Administration (ad), Institutional Advancement (ia), Instructional Services (is), Student Services (ss), Human Resources (hr), Office of the President (op).
• Subfunction refers to division and/or department.
• Use of author's name should be determined by functional area contact and web author.

Employee information web address may look like: matcmadison.edu/ia/ae/assessment/coreability, or matcmadison.edu/ss/ecpc/tjones/index.html

Instructional information web address may look like: matcmadison.edu/is/ald/tjones/index.html
matcmadison.edu/is/iss/etla/curriculum

Prior to the announcement of the naming structure, some pages contained addresses with prefixes like: instruction.matcmadison.edu/djames, matcmadison.edu/djames. To make the changes more "user friendly," Web Coordinators arranged redirect pages to help users make the transition to the new addresses.

If you find your web address still doesn't reflect the naming structure, please contact your functional area Web Coordinator. He or she can make arrangements for a redirect page. Redirect pages will expire within a reasonable period of time.

Click on one of the following to see guidelines for specific types of web content:

• Public Publishing Guidelines
• Instructional Publishing Guidelines
• Employee Publishing Guidelines
• Student Guidelines

View the Web Style Guide for additional style information.

*If your information is intended for posting to prospective students or the general public, even if the primary audience is internal, the guidelines for Public pages will apply to your information. The MATC Institutional Marketing and Public Relations Department and/or Web Strategies Bureau must review and approve all public pages stated in these guidelines.

Last modified: November 23, 2005

top