PURPOSE
This document presents the official visual guidelines for all weblogs (blogs) that fall within the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) domain, available both internally (O-Zone) and externally to the public. These guidelines are intended to serve as a resource for members of the OHSU community who currently maintain a blog.
Oregon Health and Science University blogs visual identity guidelines
These guidelines are a resource for the OHSU blogging community, and as such will undergo occasional revisions over time as necessary. The primary intention of these visual rules are to improve the user experience for all managers and users of OHSU blogs.
CONSTRAINTS
The following topics are not addressed by these guidelines:
• Definition of OHSU web or social media strategy - these guidelines will become a part of that strategy
• Blogs outside of the officially supported WordPress deployment
• Access limitations, specifically, the need to log in to blogs, even on the internal network
• Content, specifically writing. This is covered by guidance from Strategic Communications
• Legal issues for public blogs
• Instructions for using the WordPress blog software