I am in total agreement with Charles - don't offend willing content
providers with unnecessary constraints.
But you may want to make it clear from the higher level pages that the
visitor is entering departmental territory at the next level.
Norma
>Now, probably guilty of starting another discussion, opinions below are
>personal.
>
>> Should they?
>No.
>> Does it work, politically and/or technically?
>No. Eventually you get a lot of bad variants.
>> Does it make for a better overall University site?
>Personally, no. Beauty/quality is in the eye of the beholder.
>> If so, should it extend beyond just "sticking the logo in the corner"?
>No (but the logo in the corner would indeed be nice).
>
>A website has to be many things to many people and no single
>corporate design will ever meet all expectations. The best an
>institution can do is to encourage creativity and when there is a "bad"
>page is should say so and act upon it, but a non-corporate page is not a
>"bad" page.
>
>Hope it helps ;-)
>
>Charles
>
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