The guidelines listed below were designed to assist LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web developers in creating a professional and organized appearance of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans via the World Wide Web. Everyone responsible for creating web content (web sites / web pages) for LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans should abide by the following standards.

Note: All official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web site banners and the web version of the LSUHSC Purple indicia are trade marked and should never be re-created, changed, or added to your logo.

Web Page Guidelines

1. All official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web pages, excluding splash pages, must contain an Official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Web Banner at the very TOP of the web page. The appropriate web banner width should always be used. This means that an 800-pixel width web page must use the 800-pixel web banner and not the smaller or larger pixel width web banner version.
    

2. All official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web pages, excluding splash pages, must contain the Official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Footer information at the bottom of the web page. This footer will provide our Internet visitors with important information about LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans policies and other contact information.
    

3. All official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web pages must have a WHITE background. The web page background should be set to white in the html body tag. Images nor watermarks should never be used as background.
    

4. Official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web page colors are:
    

   Color	RGB Values	HTML code values
   Purple	R: 36 G: 0 B: 84	#180f46
   Gold	R: 189 G: 133 B: 0	#BD8500
   Maroon	R: 128 G: 0 B: 0	#800000




5. All official LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web pages should be designed in one of the following screen resolution sizes: 640-pixel width, 800-pixel width, 1024-pixel width, or a format that will automatically adjust to all screen resolutions.
    

6. Images on LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web pages must include an alternate text, (html "alt" tags). By including alternate text for all images, all LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web pages will stay within compliance of "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)" guidelines.
    

7. No Commercial advertisements or links to commercial businesses will be allowed on any LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans web page, however, links to internal LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans business organizations that assist the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Staff, Employees, and Students are acceptable.
    

8. The LSU Health Sciences Center Seals are for formal use only and should never be used on a web page.