USCG Auxiliary Website Template User Guide

Template, Web Template, how about USCG Auxiliary Website Template!  The Template is available for those units choosing to use the 'Look and Feel' of Team Coast Guard.  Web recognition and Public awareness are key missions for the Auxiliary and through the internet the USCG Auxiliary has the opportunity to increases public awareness and provide a professional appearance.  Your unit can assist with this mission by incorporating the Template into their website.

This users guide is provided as an aid for implementing the template into your current unit website or to give you a great start at creating one for you unit.  While it is impossible to give instructions for every web development program, this guide will provide a generic instruction with some guidelines, tips and links to great reference material.

Here are just a few Unit websites online now.  Click on the thumbnail and take a closer look.

               
All the sites above look similar but NOT alike, they DO look like they are on the same Team, yet all  have their own message specific to their unit.

Website developers are able to edit the template using html and html editor programs such as Dreamweaver, FrontPage 2003 (FP) and Expression Web (EW1, 2 or 3).  In order to make the transition to the Template user friendly, we are providing three Template models to choose from.  While all Template models basically have the same end result, the web manager can decide which model best fits their web development program.

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What's in a Template:

• Which Template Model?
• From Header to Footer with Style
• What's Your Style?
• Graphics, Tables and Wow

Template Model Specific Guides:

• JavaScript_XML Template Instruction
• Dynamic Web Template (dwt) Instruction
• Html Template Instruction

Tips on Working with the Template:

• Website Planning - New and Existing
• Website Examples
• Titles and Unit Headers
• Publish with FP 2003 or EW (PDF)
• Set up your cPanel (580 KB PowerPoint slideshow)
• Validate Your Site
• AUXWeb Branding Certificate

Resourceful Links:

Here's a few links with some specific information to assist in your web project and don't forget to explore this site for more great links and guidelines.

• Web Training Resources
• Free Trial of Expression Web 3 from Microsoft
• Any Expression Designs ~ Dynamic Web Templates in Expression Web
  (A great EW website by Tina Clarke a Microsoft MVP)
• Any Expression Designs ~ Clean Code on Paste
• Free Trial of Dreamweaver CS4 from Adobe
• Dreamweaver CS4 Developer Center

Template Support Contact

• Rhonda Rockwell (BC-IWT ~ BC-IWT)rhonda@aux04.auxservices.org
  

  Visit this group

  Subscribe to USCGAUX Web Template

  Email:

  visit our blog  http://uscgauxtemplate.blogspot.com/

Alternate Support:

• Bill Blandy (DVC-IW) blandyw@aux04.auxservices.org