Home:

The main gateway into the School of Medicine web properties, the home page, features content of interest to all audiences including:

• Timely feature articles
• News and event announcements
• A prominent link to the School of Medicine filtered version of the larger UCSF calendar

Index:

Programmatic content grouped under the Schools primary mission areas under: Education, Research & Patient Care, index pages introduce the breadth of content of the school.

Audience Gateway Pages:

These are also referred to as 'For' pages. These audience specific pages highlight content of specific interest to our identified user groups. THese pages are created in conjunction with programs/units who directly serve these audiences.

Resource Collections:

These pages are also called 'Find' pages. Collected resources applicable to a wide-variety of users and tasks, the find menus contain databases, lists of policies, offices and departments. They are intended to quickly deliver answers and links to relevant content. Individual pages accessed through the find menus are controlled and developed by individual units, departments or faculty members.

Content Templates:

Most of the pages on our site are content pages. These pages have been design/redesigned in three palettes, orange for Education& Training sites, teal for Research sites and Blue for Patient Care sites. These templates offer a unified look and feel to all of the School of Medicine website pages.

Each site has been supplied with a content template in its palette. For a tutorial on using and implementing these pages, please see the tutorial entitled Creating and Editing Web Pages.

The content templates promote consistency in design/redesign, format and functionality while accomodating a variety of content. The templates and the elements within them should be used with consistency.

Departments have a special version of the content templates. These templates do not contain the global navigation and have greater flexibility in layout, styles and colors. There are two banner styles available to departments. The templates and the elements within them should be used with consistency.