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United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

8th Western Rivers District

Communication Services

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Commodore Diane Williams

Dianne Edgecomb, Vice Commodore

 

Christopher Ware, DSO-CS

Jerome Domann, ADSO-CS

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

 


Meet the Staff/Contact    |    Latest News    |    AIRS Policies    |   8WR Web Checklist

8WR Webpage     |     Coast Guard National Webpage     |     Dept of Homeland Security Webpage

SEE ALSO:  SO-CS Job Description   |     FSO-CS Job Description


 

Web Resources

Internet / Web Policies Coast Guard Auxiliary Web Resources
Internet Policies of the Coast Guard Auxiliary
- Auxiliary internet web sites policy
- Auxiliary website link criteria - The Auxiliary's standard for determining the appropriateness of linking to other sites
- Auxiliary link disclaimer - Required on all Auxiliary websites
- Explanation for how to make a link disclaimer
- Cookies on internet websites
- Internet website accessibility - COMDTNOTE 5230, relating to disabled user access
- Internet site checklist - Auxiliary Internet Policy compliance checklist
 

Communication Services Information
- CS Handbook (7th District)

Auxiliary Internet Resources Site (AIRS)
- AIRS site request
- AIRS reference links
- AIRS reference materials
- Unit listings
- Web support directory

Auxiliary Information & Communication Services Department
- FutureWeb

How to bring up an Auxiliary website

Auxiliary graphic images

Flotilla Finder email address update form

Webmaster training Section 508 Accessibility
Online training resources
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA)
- HTML Tutorial (W3Schools)
- HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners (DaveSite)
- Introduction to HTML (Case Western Reserve University)
- Writing HTML (Mericopa Center for Training & Instruction)
- Demonstration of Basic and Advanced HTML Tags (University of California, San Diego)
- HTML Primer: HTML tutorial (HTMLPrimer.com)
- Authoring HTML Basics (Webmonkey)

Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary Webmaster training

Section 508 Page (The Access Board)
- Guidelines for Webpages

Federal IT Accessibility Initiative (section508.gov)
- Webmaster Section 508 Online Tutorial
- Section 508 Standards

Section 508 checklist (WebAIM)

* Although the Coast Guard Auxiliary is not required to comply with Section 508 internet requirements, the Auxiliary is committed to making its websites as Section 508 compliant as possible. All Auxiliary Webmasters should become familiar with these requirements and apply them to all new and updated webpages.

HyperText Markup Language Editors, Validation, Link Checking
HTML and Related Specifications from W3C:
- HTML, version 4.01
- HTML, version 3.2
- Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
- Cascading Style Sheets, level 2
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0

HTML Online Training Course Notes:
- HyperText Markup Language (Library of Congress)
- HTML: What's New in 3.2? (Library of Congress)
- Glossary of selected HTML tags (by category) (Library of Congress)

Editors:
- Dreamweaver / HomeSite
 

HTML validation:
- W3C MarkUp Validation Service

Section 508 compliance checking:
- Bobby Scan (Watchfire)

Writing for Search Engines Usability and User-Centered Design
Writing tips:
- Collecting, Writing, and Revising Content (Usability.gov)
- Good Documents: How to write for the INTRAnet (Trellix Corp.)
- Website tales: Writing for the Web (ELDIS)
- Search Engine Watch (Internet.com)

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Meta-crawler indexing services:
- Google
- AltaVista
- Yahoo!

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (Usability.gov)

useit.com (Jakob Nielson)

Web Usability links (Design Technologies)

Human Factors International
- HFI Newsletter

Other Usability resources:
- Usability.gov
- Denim prototyping tool (Berkeley University)
- How users read on the Web (The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability)

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NOTICE - DISCLAIMER

Links to non-Coast Guard entities are not under the control of the United States Coast Guard, or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, and are provided for the convenience of our customers. They do not, in any way, constitute an endorsement of the linked pages or any commercial or private issues or products presented there. We cannot make any warranty or representation concerning the content of these sites, or secondary sites from the pages to which they link.