Member congregations and affiliated organizations are encouraged to contribute to the Union website by

• Providing information to be formatted and posted to the website on a regular basis
• Requesting an account on the Union server to be used by a Union congregation, affiliates, or department as appropriate
• Preparing, installing, updating, and maintaining web pages under that account
• Submitting the "URL" of a related site to be linked into the Union web

Union reserves the right not to post information and not to link to web pages that violate the policies and practices that apply to Union publications and those set forth in the EdgeWeb Hosting Policy. For example:

• Do not include copyright-protected material from another source on the Internet or elsewhere without permission. (Note: This does not preclude linking to pages on other websites.)
• the name or contact information for any person without permission.

In addition, the following standards are offered for consideration by web page authors.

• Include a link to the Union home page from the homepage of your website.
• Consider using one or more Union logos or related images .
• Include a copyright line on each page like the one at the bottom of this page.
• If a page is subject to updating, include a "Most recent update" notice like the one at the bottom of this page.
• Include a pertinent <TITLE>...<TITLE> at the top of the page.
• Consider including the author's name in an <!-- HTML comment --> at the top of the page.
• Display the name of the author only if she/he wrote the material on the page; e.g., the author of a report.
• Display the name and a mailto link for the responsible web author in small font at the bottom of the page.

• Avoid the use of font size 7 and heading size 1.
• Avoid the use of large graphics on a page of text that can considerably delay downloading.
• Minimize the use of blinking text and flashing images that many visitors find objectionable.
• Choose background colors and images that do not interfere with readability of text.
• Reword text to avoid the use of "click here" and similar instructions.
• If you use the HTML "frames" capability, provide a non-frames version for people whose browsers do not support frames.