About This Site
Thanks for visiting the new Bowdoin College Meddiebempsters website. The Meddies have taken the time to create a page that we think is attractive, informative, and accessible, and we hope you agree. The following information regards technologies, credits, and rights:
Web Standards
The Meddiebempsters website exclusively uses technologies considered web standards for the purposes of static content, presentation, and scripting. These technologies, codified and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium along with other standards bodies, ensure open and simple standards designed to be able to function on all platforms and all users, including those with disabilities.
Websites that make use of these standards have the advantage of being accessible to users with disabilities, faster for users to download, more visually consistent across the site, and easier to update and design. The Meddiebempsters encourage organizations, businesses, and individuals to incorporate these standards in their web designs. Additionally, the Meddiebempsters encourage users to use and support web browsers that adequately support these open standards, such as Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Konqueror, and others.
Standards Compliance
The Meddiebempsters website strives to comply with the following standards:
- XHTML 1.0 Strict: Validate
- CSS 2.0: Validate
- U.S. Section 508 Accessibility: Validate
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Priority 3: Info
Site Designers and Authors
The Meddies website was designed and authored by former Meddiebempster M. Jackson Wilkinson M'05 and his firm, Jounce://Design, with frequent input and feedback from the current Meddiebempsters.
Much of the content (news articles, event listings, blog entries, member profiles, etc.) was composed by the current Meddiebempsters using a content management interface written by Jack.
Copyright and Use Info
This site's design and contents, both written and visual, are Copyright © 2003-2008 The Bowdoin College Meddiebempsters. The copying of small passages of text is allowed with attribution, but wholesale copying of entire articles, posts, or biographies is not without prior written permission. We respect your right to fair use, but copyright infringement is not okay. To obtain permission, please contact us.
The Meddiebempsters logo and slogan are trademarks of the Bowdoin College Meddiebempsters. All other trademarks referred to on this site are trademarks of their respective organizations.
All images on this site are either owned by the Meddiebempsters, or are public domain. Every effort has been made to ensure that images on this site are used in a method consistent with the requests of their owners.
The design of this site, which includes color combinations, positioning, images, typesetting, and sizes, are Copyright © 2005 The Bowdoin College Meddiebempsters, and reproduction is prohibited.
Designers should feel free to use this site and its source as a reference for their own implementation of web standards, but no elements of the site should be passed off as the property of anyone other than the Bowdoin College Meddiebempsters.