Web guidelines and policies

These links will help you to familiarize yourself with the campus-wide standards, procedures and guidelines that pertain to your site.

Key points to remember:

• Respect the privacy of personal data.

• Respect all pertinent licences, copyrights and contracts.

• Respect any relevant law governing the use of information technology.

University policies, procedures and guidelines are reviewed and modified on an ongoing basis. In the event of a discrepancy between the most recently approved version of a document and the version posted on a web site, the former shall be the governing document.

• Waterloo Positioning Guide
• Best Practices Guides: information architecture, site navigation and content
• Phasing Protocol Plan
• Communications & Public Affairs Style Guide (under 'Resources' section)
• Waterloo wordmarks and seal
• Social media (Facebook and Twitter)
• YouTube Content standards (authentication required) 
• iTunes U

• Statement on the Use of Computing and Network Resources
• Statement on Security of Waterloo Computing and Network Resources
• Web Development at Waterloo
• Web Application Development
• E-commerce
• Web surveys
• Form processing using EasyForm
• Webcasting
• Web servers

• Universal page design

• Archiving (Policy 13)
• Information & Privacy
• Information Security (Policy 8)