Template Information

UMD Web Page Templates

Thank you for your interest in the templates and the new UMD home page design. You may use and customize all of the files as much or as little as you like for your site. The photoshop files have several color layers in them to choose from if you do not want to use the blue colors. If you have any questions, feel free to call or email Andrew Manteuffel (726-6927, amanteuf@d.umn.edu).

Get the files

All of the Dreamweaver templates, PhotoShop files, and Stylesheets are available for download with a brief description.

About the Templates

• The templates satisfy all of the requirements found in the U of MN Web Publishing Guidlines.
• The templates meet U.S. Section 508 Guidelines for accessibility.
• The templates use a "liquid" design. This allows the page to expand and contract to take full advantage of the width of the browser window and avoid having to side-scroll in narrow windows.
• The template files are XHTML 1.0 Transitional. UMD is encouraging the use of standards compliant web browsers and as such, will be using XHTML and CSS for future pages.
• There are 8 template files since not all content will have room for the photo or the navigation links column or both. The templates are named in three parts, "nav", "1col/2col", and "pic" separated by an underscore. Names that contain "nav" have the navigation links column, names with "1col" or "2col" have 1 or 2 columns of content respectively, and names with "pic" have the photo column. This will make it easier to keep pages in templates since you will not have to detatch a page from a template in order to get rid of an extra column.
• There is a breadcrumb class in the stylesheet. Using breadcrumbs will help users find their way around your site especially if they come to your site from a search engine. You can see how these are done by looking at this page with breadcrumbs. The one column template "1col" has a sample breadcrumb in it.
• The stylesheet has comments in the file to help understand what each section of code affects on the web page.
• All of the images and stylesheets that are referenced by the templates are in their final destinations on the web server and will not be moving.

Read more benefits of using the UMD templates.

For more information about putting web pages on the UMD server, see Creating, Storing, and Linking Pages to the UMD Web Site.