Bellevue College

Web Publishing Guide

Standards: Rules of the Road

Web Standards are the rules of the road for college website managers and application developers.

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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

  1. The Bellevue Community College web address, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL), is the address that specifies the location of a file on the Internet. BCC websites will be assigned a web URL using the following naming conventions:
    1. Bellevue Community College website home page URL is http://bellevuecollege.edu/
    2. Official websites will use the URL format: http://bellevuecollege.edu/{sitename}/
    3. Personal websites will use the URL format: http://facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/{username}/
    4. Student Organization websites will use the URL format: http://student.bcc.ctc.edu/{sitename}/
  2. No other URL format will be assigned without prior written approval from the BCC IT Security Administrator and/or the Dean of Information Resources, or authorized designee, and the appropriate Organizational Unit Administrator (OUA). All new domain names must be approved by the BCC Director of Marketing.
  3. BCC websites in existence at the time this standard was adopted which follow previous BCC URL naming conventions that are not compliant with this current requirement may continue to use the existing URL until such a time as the website is updated to conform. Website managers will work with Web Services personnel to make these changes as sites are updated.