What are “Sandstone and Tile” templates for?
The Sandstone and Tile templates provide the University community — including affiliates, alumni, friends, and neighbors — a way to publish web pages that “look like Stanford” even though they are not part of any of Stanford’s “official” web sites. Because community members may choose Sandstone and Tile for publishing scholarly or other material in which the University has interest/ownership, versions are available that include standard University copyright information and the University’s official seal.
When is it O.K. to display the Stanford logo (seal)?
Following is an excerpt from Administrative Guide Memo 15.5, Ownership and Use of Stanford Name and Trademarks:
- Accuracy — Use of the Stanford name and marks in association with an event, program, project, publication or product implies some form of involvement by the University. Involvement by individual faculty, students, alumni or staff is not a sufficient basis for indicating University sponsorship or endorsement. The activity must be one in which the University has an institutional role.
- Quality Standards — Stanford’s name and marks may be used only in connection with activities that meet high standards and are consistent with the University’s educational, research and related purposes.
- Prohibited Uses — In keeping with its status as a non-profit educational institution, Stanford does not permit its name and marks to be used in connection with partisan political activities. Individual faculty, students, alumni or staff may not use Stanford's name and marks in association with any commercial activity or outside venture without written permission of a person authorized by the Board of Trustees or University President to so act.
Visit the Administrative Guide, University Design Guidelines, and Online Accessibility Program web sites to learn more. Know your responsibilities before you use the Stanford University name, display University logos/trademarks, or indicate Stanford copyright on any of your web pages.
How do I get the templates and use them with my content?
Use the links to the right to preview example pages in Sandstone and Tile’s several style/layout variations. (These preview pages double as “by example” style guides.) For download, the templates are separated into two package options: one is for Stanford copyrighted content, while the other contains no copyright notice or seal (both packages include all four style/layout variations).
In order to build a web page or web site using these Sandstone and Tile HTML/CSS template packages, you need to know basic HTML/CSS web skills. A “WYSIWYG” HTML editor like Dreamweaver can take the manual-code messiness out of the process, but you will still need to know how to move files around, name them, link to them. And, if you are using these templates on Stanford’s centrally-provided Web Service, you will need to know how to publish and maintain a web site in user or group AFS space. Technology Training Services offers both classroom and online training that can get you up to speed if you don’t already have these skills.
More Information
Like other components of the Self-help Web Design Resources site, these templates are published and maintained by Stanford’s Information Technology Services department in cooperation with the Office of University Communications Web Team and the Stanford Online Accessibility Program.
Sandstone and Tile is currently available only as HTML/CSS packages, including accompanying images, for use in creating static-page web sites manually or with HTML editing tools such as Adobe’s Dreamweaver/Contribute suite. By Autumn 2010, IT Services plans to release Sandstone and Tile themes for Drupal and WordPress.