Standard: Regional Bridge Page
Brief description
(see the full document below for details)
The Regional bridge page is the home page for a given topic within a Region; it also links to national information.
Note: This is a "legacy" standard, written before the Web Council was created. It has been in force since the effective date. Since the creation of the Web Council, it has been rewritten to follow the normal layout for standards. "Date approved" refers to when the Web Council approved this rewritten version.
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Content requirements
- The Regional bridge page serves as the home page for Regional information about the topic; therefore, it must meet the Home Page standard.
- The page also must link to national information about a topic:
- Do not change the breadcrumbs on the Regional bridge page; we no longer use double breadcrumbs.
- If the Regional bridge page is:
- related to only one national topic, copy the links from the national left sidebar into a right sidebar box. Use all of the top-level national links; it is optional to include links under a heading in the sidebar.
- related to more than one topic, link to the home pages of those topics from a right sidebar box.
- Each region should use the same set of national links.
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Style requirements
- Use an appropriate template, even if the Regional bridge page is being maintained by a headquarters office.
- If there is sufficient depth of information about a topic within a Region, create a Web area for it and use the same template for the bridge page.
- If the topic is already incorporated within an existing Regional Web area, use that template for the bridge page.
- Use a "national information" box to provide links to national pages on the topic. The box title must be "National Information". See the Boxes standard for details.
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How to
See
http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/s/boxes.html#natreg
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Rationale
It is important to provide a home page for Regional information about a topic and also make it easy to find national information. The right sidebar box is the complement to links from the Where You Live page.
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Full Metadata about this standard
Name Regional Bridge Page
Tracking number NT00000000
Type Standard
Required or Recommended Required
Effective date 01/01/2004
Date approved 03/12/2007
Category Links and Navigation, Required Pages
Web Council review by 03/12/2009 (or earlier if deemed necessary by the Web Council)
Governing Policy Web Governance and Management (PDF) (4 pp, 339K, About PDF)
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