Web Platform Guidelines

After deciding on the audience you want to reach, you’ll want to choose a web platform for your content.

  • WWW web pages are mainly for external audiences.
  • WordPress sites can be for internal or external audiences.

Read details for each platform below, and as always, submit a tech request for advice on the best web platform for your project. 

Note: The College may review, edit and/or remove any pages, blogs or content areas that contain incorrect or outdated information.

WWW Web Pages

Audience: Priority is external, particularly prospective students. Internal audiences (employee, current student) are secondary.

Content Focus: Information to: engage prospective students, help them evaluate MCC as a college choice, take action to become MCC students. Other information needed by employees and external audiences other than prospective students (e.g. higher education peers, community leaders, etc.).

Qualities: In MCC-branded web template; public; externally-focused.

When to use: Promoting or representing a unit of MCC (e.g. a department, program, organization, etc.) or an official MCC activity (e.g. new student orientation, All College Days, etc.) or an official MCC function (e.g. enrollment marketing, etc.).

What: Web pages on www.monroecc.edu created in partnership with the MCC web team, using the College’s approved web templates, graphic styles and standards, and fully hosted on the domain monroecc.edu. Content is maintained by established area web Liaisons, with support by the MCC web team.

Directory Structures:

  • DEPARTMENTS folder: Web pages for academic and administrative divisions and departments.
  • ENROLL folder: Web pages to promote specific semester/registration periods and enrollment campaigns.
  • EVENTS folder: Web pages to provide information on college-wide specific events such as open houses or Scholar’s Day.
  • ORGANIZATIONS folder: Web pages to provide information regarding groups that are officially part of MCC but are not a formal department. These are entities that are defined by what they do (e.g. Sixth Act, Holocaust Center, Teaching & Creativity Center, initiatives) and have an external audience.
  • STORIES folder: Web pages created as MCC marketing pieces and include feature pieces about faculty and students.

WordPress

Pages (official units)

Qualities: In MCC-branded template; internally- or externally-focused.

When to use: Groups, initiatives, projects related to MCC but are not necessarily official units of the College, (e.g. Humanities Institute, MathPuzzler, AAWCC); MCC clubs and committees requiring an externally-focused online presence.

What: Web pages created in partnership with the MCC Web team, using the College’s approved templates, graphic styles and standards, and fully hosted on the domain sites.monroecc.edu. Content is maintained by the site/page owner.

Blogs (official units)

Qualities: In MCC-branded template; can be internally- or externally-focused.

When to use: Representatives of MCC units, groups, activities and functions.

What: Blog created in partnership with the MCC Web team, using the College’s approved MCC templates, graphic styles and standards, and fully hosted on the domain sites.monroecc.edu. Content is maintained by the site/page owner.

Pages & Blogs (employees)

Qualities: In approved template; can be internally- or externally-focused.

When to use: Individual employees of MCC.

What: Web pages or blogs created in partnership with the MCC Web team, using the College’s approved templates, graphic styles and standards, and fully hosted on the domain sites.monroecc.edu. Content is maintained by the site/page owner.