Why use the web template?
- Using the campus web template provides a consistent experience for your users as they navigate the UCSC website.
- Using the campus web template strengthens the UCSC brand by enforcing common visual elements across different department and division sites.
- Using the campus web template emphasizes your content. Minimizing design deviations across all departments will emphasize the content on each page. Adopting the campus template will simplify your site's creation, maintenance, and evolution, freeing you up to focus on your site's content.
- Using the campus web template allows your site to evolve with the campus web identity. Sites that follow the campus template will be easier to upgrade as the template evolves.
- Using the campus web template saves you time. Working through individual aesthetic preferences among the stakeholders of your website can slow the design process and the project as a whole. If you adopt the campus template this work is already done and production of your site begins when your content is ready.
- Using the campus web template allows you to provide valuable feedback. Suggestions made to us by users of the template will be given priority and more likely to be implemented in future iterations of the template without cost to them.
- Using the campus web template provides a standards-compliant, accessible experience for your users. UCSC web templates are constantly evaluated and updated for compliance with W3C standards, section 508 of the ADA, and WCAG so all users (including those with handicaps) are less likely to be impeded by the interface.