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  • Cross-browser support
    • prioritize browsers
    • operating systems?
  • Maintability - style sheets, includes
    • Documentation
      • SVN/trac
      • Mediawiki (wiki.cs.earlham.edu)
        • Changelog rotated every other month (bimonthly)
    • Organizing
      • cgi in one directory
      • php includes on directory
      • css in one directory
      • images in a directory
  • Security/Integrity - don't make security holes :P
    • Scripts only available on campus (barndoor)
    • Not putting false, compromising, incriminating, inappropriate info
    • Follow campus (ECS?) information policy (does one exist?)
  • Reliability (working on staging first)
    • Only put polished and tested pages live
    • Major changes should be run by users and tested by users, and given a specific release date ahead of time
  • Usability
    • Users: potential students of CS (or another department of Earlham), people in CS department, Earlham at large
    • Clean layout
    • Navigability
    • No orphaned pages
  • Standards compliance (XHTML)
    • Value ease of use higher than compliance but trying to move toward compliance
    • Keep CSS/HTML separate