Indian Health Service Standards and Guidelines

For Internet and Intranet Services


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Table Of Contents

Goal
Introduction
Purpose
Level of Compliance


Accessibility
Accuracy/Timeliness/Currency
Acronym Use
Audio Clips
Browsers
Cookies
Copyright
Design Format
Development Server
Directory Structure
Disclaimers
Electronic Reading Room
E-Mail Addresses
File Format
File Size
Files
Footer
Forms
Frames
GILS
Graphics
Header
Home Page
Home Page Links
HTML
Image Maps
Images
Information Approval and Clearances
Information Collection/Surveys
Information/System Protection
Information Published
Java
JavaScript
Links (Dead)
Links (Live)
META Tags
Navigation
Netiquette
Robots
Search Engines
Security
Tables
Testing
Text Only Alternative
Titles
Under Construction
URL's
Usage Monitoring
Web Site Establishment


 

Files

Standards

  1. The default page for any directory should be named "index.asp", "index.cfm", "index.htm", "default.asp" "default.cfm" or "default.htm".
     
  2. References to files, anchors, and images residing on all Headquarters IHS Internet or Intranet servers shall be relative, not absolute Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), to make documents and sites portable.

    Example 1:

    To address a file in the document that is:    <A HREF= 
         in the same directory or folder "*.asp">
         down one level "(directory name)/*.asp">
         up one level " ../*.asp">
         up two levels " ../../*.asp">
         in a sibling directory "../(SibDirName)/*.asp">

Note that " * " refers to the filename. The directory or folder names are separated by forward slashes, and two dots are used to refer generically to the directory above the current one.

Example 2:

A link from the file "index.asp" to the file "coding.asp", when both files reside on the server www.ihs.gov in the directory "/general/web", should be expressed as

      <A HREF="coding.asp">

not as

     <A HREF="http://www.ihs.gov/general/web/coding.asp">

  1. In linking to remote pages, i.e., pages on the web somewhere on another system, use absolute URL pathnames.

Example:  http://www.hhs.gov/progorg/oirm/bestguid.html  is the absolute URL address for the Department of Health and Human Services World Wide Web Applications and the Internet Best Practices and Guidelines.

 

Guidelines

Reference the HHS World Wide Web Applications and the Internet Best Practices and Guidelines, http://www.hhs.gov/progorg/oirm/bestguid.html, "Documents" and "Page Sizing" sections for additional information.

 

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