Yale School of Medicine

Institutional Planning & Communications

Web Template Initiative

Web Template Initiative, Yale School of Medicine

Institutional Planning & Communications
300 George St, Ste. 773
New Haven, CT 06511
Tel: 203.785.5824
Fax: 203.785.4327
editor@info.med.yale.edu

Template guidelines

YSM Navigation Entity header Main navigation Image band Left column Middle and right column Footer
Click areas of the image for specific information about each template component.

One purpose of the template system is to have all sites resemble one another in look and feel and be similarly structured. To help facilitate this process, the YSM Office of Institutional Planning & Communications has created a series of guidelines that must be followed when using the template in your organization’s website.

Please remember that once you have agreed to use the template for your website, you may not alter the fundamentals of the design and navigation. If you have concerns that something in the template does not work for your needs, please contact ITS-WS (Kimberly Pasko) or YSM-IPC (Lena Parker or Justin Fansler) so that we can resolve the issue.

 

Template Components and Guidelines

  1. YSM navigation bar with YSM logo and top-level links
  2. Entity header
    • Type 1: Freestanding or Major Entity
    • Type 2: Subsection of a Freestanding or Major Entity
    • Type 3: YSM Central pages
    • Type 4: Header/Footer
  3. Image band on front page
    • “About the image” page
  4. Main navigation links
  5. Left column
    • Sub-navigation
    • Address
    • Toolbox items
  6. Middle and right columns
    • Breadcrumbs
  7. Content images
    • Middle column
    • Right column
  8. Footer
  9. Restrictions
    • Logos
    • Framework
    • Use of the template

To view the appropriate styles associated with each section of the template, please review the Web styles guide.