Graphic Identity

Hyperlinks

Standard UST Links: Global navigation has been supplied with your templates to important university Web site locations, and are designed to automatically link to these locations when your completed page is uploaded.

Text Links:
Text links within the content area appear in purple (#663399) and are underlined. Once utilized, they will reappear in gray as a reminder that they have already been visited.
Text Link         Visited Text Link

External Links:
You can create additional links to external locations on the World Wide Web. It is important that Web publishers refrain from product endorsement and linking to frivolous or inappropriate sites. Linking to these types of sites can put the university’s nonprofit standing in jeopardy.

It is also important to clearly indicate to users that they will be leaving the St. Thomas Web site when they click on an external link. One way to make this distinction is to have the external site open in a new browser window. (Ask your site coordinator for the appropriate html code.)

Dead Links:
Links that do not work can quickly call into question the credibility of your Web page. Dead links inevitably occur as pages are modified, moved, or deleted over time. The site manager for each site is responsible for monitoring and maintaining his or her own pages.

Relative Links:
Relative URLs should be used whenever possible, for both anchors and images, in order to make documents and collections portable. This way, if the site manager moves a Web directory, he or she need not change all the links within the home page. For example, a link from the file "index.html" to the file "ustdepartment.html" – when both files reside on the Web server "www.stthomas.edu" in the directory "/internship/" – should be expressed as
<A HREF="ustdepartment.html">, not as
<A HREF="http://www.stthomas.edu/internship/ustdepartment.html">.