Website

The purpose of this page is to help chapter webmasters in Region I and elsewhere put together web pages that serve the needs of their chapters. We're putting together whatever useful information we can collect here, so this page will grow more useful over time.

“Cool Sites” Award

The “Cool Sites” Award is given out at the end of each semester by the National Service and Communications committee to one chapter in each region who's website is judged to be the best in it's region. Websites are judged according to a set of criteria by a group of volunteer alumni judges appointed by the S&C committee.

Cool Web Sites - The National Website page for the award, including past recipients
Cool Sites Criteria - The criteria used for judging
Chapter Website Building - An essay on how to think about designing webpages for APO chapters

Web Resources

Accessibility Resources
- http://www.section508.gov/ - the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Government-wide Policy's site to help Federal Agencies comply
- http://www.w3c.org/WAI/ - The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative. The W3C is the standards body that decides what standards are in use on the web.
- http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/ - See what your website would look like to a colorblind person
Web Design Resources

CSS Zen Garden - a website that opened my eyes to the wonders of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) web design. Look at their page: it's entirely plain HTML--no tables, no images, no funky markup. All the fancy formatting in all the pages at this site are done entirely through CSS.
Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW - a site that encourages accessible web design.

Graphics Repositories

Webmaster's Rants