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CVMBS Webmaster Committee
The Webmaster Committee oversees the design and layout of top-level pages in the CVMBS web site. Members of the CVMBS Webmaster Committee are responsible for ensuring that the Web pages authored out of their respective departments are consistent with CVMBS's Web Style Guide, CSU's Web Guidelines and CSU's ATRC Web Accessibility Guidelines. For more information, see the Webmaster Committee Charge http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/webmaster/charge.html

Webmasters' Responsibilities
In addition to developing documents, Webmasters are responsible for:

Updating and revising documents as needed, eliminating those that are outdated.
Assuring that links are made to active sites and checking them to ensure they remain active.
Posting metadata on each Web page. (See the metadata section.)
Conveying when cross-referenced links should be created.
Conveying when information should be posted on the home page.
Removing outdated pages.

Dealing With Outdated Information
Authors are responsible for dealing with pages that contain outdated information.

If there is just a section of a page that is outdated the author's options are:

If the information may become relevant again in the future, the author may comment out the information.
If the information will not become relevant in the future the information should be permanently deleted from the document.

If there is a whole page that is outdated and the information will not become relevant in the future the page should be deleted from the site.

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