Entity header

Quick reference: Entity titles are not editable. The image is provided by ITS-WS. The subsection header navigation list should never exceed one line (cannot wrap).

not editable; provided by ITS-WS

The header is a blue band that contains the name of the organization (and its parent, if necessary) that the site represents. The text image is provided by ITS-WS and should not be edited. Any request for changes should be directed to ITS-WS.

Type 1: Freestanding or Major Entity

The term “freestanding or major entity” refers to any organization in the School that does not have a parent organization besides the School itself. This includes departments, offices, and programs or centers that span multiple departments or are large, complex and multi-faceted.

The freestanding or major entity header, which is provided by ITS-WS, should not be changed once the text has been approved. Any request for changes should be directed to ITS-WS.

Type 2: Subsection of a Freestanding or Major Entity

A subsection of a freestanding or major entity is an organization at the School that has a clear parent organization (for instance, the subsection of Nephrology belongs to the Department of Internal Medicine).

The entity band within the subsection header may optionally contain a horizontal list of top-level links for the major entity and is displayed like the links in the top YSM navigation bar. The list should never exceed one line, and the links should be consistent across any organizations that have this same parent. The parent organization determines what those links are. If your organization has two or more parent organizations, please discuss solutions with ITS-WS or YSM-IPC. Most likely, parent organizations will be listed in the entity band in a breadcrumb fashion. As a working example, this website (Web Template Initiative) is a subsection of YSM Institutional Planning & Communications. Users can easily navigate back to YSM-IPC and its main pages via the major entity navigation bar.

The subsection header allows users to easily see the navigation of the organization’s parent entity. In the sample above, the links “About Us,” “Educational Programs,” etc. belong to the major entity, Internal Medicine, and mirror Internal Medicine’s main navigation, which is found in that site’s orange bar. In this case, Nephrology is the subsection.

Type 3: YSM Central pages

These are pages that belong to school administration and describe central functions or services (such as About Us) and are physically located at info.med.yale.edu/ysm/. Otherwise known as the “Front door.”

Type 4: Header/Footer

Sites that do not use the YSM template should use the YSM header and may use the YSM footer in their site.