Page Guidelines and Templates

There are two different styles of templates, heavy and medium branded, both of which offer several variations. While the variety of templates offered may reflect elements of the Penn homepage, there are no templates that duplicate Penn's homepage. Schools, departments, or administrative offices should use the templates provided and not attempt to duplicate the homepage, which is intended as a unique gateway into the entire Penn web. Please contact the University Communications web team if you have any further questions or concerns.

The templates provided should only be used for official Penn web pages and are not intended for use by any outside group or institution. Official web pages are defined as any web page on a Penn web server that have been created by the University, its schools, departments, or other administrative offices.

Please note that these XHTML CSS-based templates are all CSS-based designs.

New Templates

In order to provide the University community with additional style options, new templates (Heavy and Medium Branded) have been created. We are soliciting feedback on these templates and encourage anyone with comments, concerns or suggestions to send an email to eschbach@upenn.edu. This style guide is using the Blue Side Menu with Gray Toolbar template.

Heavy Branded Templates

HB Version A:
These templates include the dark blue sidebar navigation and the global Penn web toolbar (Home, Penn A-Z, Directories, etc…) at the top and bottom of the page. It is available in a two column and three column format (see example HB-1).

HB Version B:
In these templates, the top and bottom toolbars contain links specific to the individual school or department, instead of the global toolbar that appears in HB Version A. (see example HB-2)

View new Heavy Branded templates.

Medium Branded Templates

These templates have been created to provide additional design options while still remaining true to the style of the central Penn web.

Several variations of medium templates are available for download. Templates are available in one, two and three column formats, as well as in several different colors. See example MB-1 to view several of the original templates that are available. New medium branded designs are also available. See example MB-2 to view an example of the new medium branded templates.

All of the medium branded templates can be accessed at the following location:
http://www.upenn.edu/webguide/style_guide/medium.html.

View new Medium Branded templates.