EPAFiles: Web Design
OneEPA Web
- This site is in flux as we generate documentation for the OneEPA Web Template.
Contact Michael Hessling (hessling.michael@epa.gov) or Judy Dew (dew.judy@epa.gov) with questions.
Unified EPA.gov
- To smooth the transition to the OneEPA Web structure, OEAEE created a process for new or redesigned/ reorganized/ updated web areas outside the OneEPA Web structure
- Following the goals and process, the Web Content Coordinators from each AAship and Region, with the support and guidance of the OEAEE/Office of Web Communications (OWC), have editorial responsibility.
OneEPA Template
The OneEPA Web template is now available.
Note: If you are using a template that predates the current tabbed template, you do not have the full set of functionality available in the current template.
Who can use the OneEPA Template?
- Existing sites when reorganized, updated, or redesigned and new sites.
- Must follow
- Websites that remain in Template 3, but reorganize and update content
- Must follow
- Goals for EPA.gov
- Writing for the Web requirements
- Optional: Process for Redesign of Web Areas Outside the OneEPA Web structure
- Must follow
We strongly encourage you to spend your money on producing excellent content, rather than changing your look-and-feel. No matter the template, all applicable web standards still apply. Before you start:
Good Code
Web Applications
Other Resources
Template Instructions — Updating or Creating Web Pages
- High-level Specifications — An overview of an EPA web page, showing how a page is divided and what you can, must, and shouldn't do in each section.
- Updating Existing Pages with Template 4
- Creating New Web Areas with Template 4
- A quick checklist for formatting your Web pages — for use after mastering the instructions for updating and creating pages.
- Frequent Questions
More information about specific pages and page sections:
- Metadata Requirements
- Managing Outdated Pages
- Code Library — Code you reuse over and over.
- Common Implementation Issues — "Gotchas": Common trouble spots.
- Exemptions from the Look and Feel — Pages and sites that are not required to follow the EPA look and feel.
- The Exit EPA disclaimer and icon
- The JavaScript (jQuery) in the "OneEPA" and v3 Templates
- Contact Us pages; maps for Where You Live pages; other commonly used files