Web Brand Guidelines
All web content must be compliant with accessibility rules and maintain the university’s brand standards. Each department should only publish content that is complete, accurate, up-to-date, and ready for public viewing.
In most cases, a college’s primary audience is students — prospective or enrolled — and the secondary audience is the public. Most content that is intended for internal audiences, like processes for employees or details for specific student groups, should be posted in a location other than the public website (e.g., MyRaft).
Directory
The university directory is populated with data from the human resources information database. If your information is not correct, contact your department’s Human Resources liaison to correct the information. If you are unsure who your liaison is, ask your MPP.
If you would like to include a directory photo, participate in one of the periodic faculty and staff professional photo days produced by University Communications. Check Inside CSUMB for announcements about upcoming opportunities.
Adding biographic information, office hours, and other details are not available in the new directory. Information Technology is working on the next-generation features of the directory. Details are not yet available, and a launch date is not scheduled.
Department-managed custom directory pages are no longer supported in the new directory. All departments are encouraged to add a link from your About or Contact page to a filtered directory listing. Section editors should check the web editor training for more direction on making filtered directory listing links.
To view the email address of a user in the directory, be sure to log in to the website by first clicking the Dashboard link at the top of the page.
Photos
University Communications provides section editors with a robust library of brand-standard photos in the Media Library in Terminalfour. These can be found in the Approved Image Selection folder. All section editors have access and training to use these images. Section editors who would like to add their own brand-compliant images and accessible PDFs to their own department folders in the Media Library may request access by using the section editor support request form.
Videos
Videos may not be directly added to the website as they must first be reviewed for brand compliance. Departments that intend to make a video should engage with University Communications early in the process to ensure all brand elements are included in the project to avoid rework and delay. Complete the University Communications project request form for video projects and for brand review.
Restricted content types
Some content types are designed to be used with specific page layouts and do not work in all situations. These content types are not available for use or editing by section editors. The restricted content type most frequently encountered by section editors is Image Column with CTA Buttons. If a section editor wants to edit this content, they must create replacement content in a general content or column content type. Then they must submit a section editor support request form to unpublish the restricted content block.
Search results
Improving the website search function is an ongoing process. If you search for a term and do not get the expected results, please share that information with Information Technology so that they may improve the search bar functionality.