Cornell Alumni, Family, and Friends and Giving sites owners' manual
Using these guidelines
A website is more than a collection of pages. It is the result of a series of decisions made to meet the needs of Cornell AAD and its stakeholders. Maintaining your site will also require making decisions—what content to add or remove, where to expand functionality, and how to improve pathways to key information and actions.
The purpose of these guidelines is to help you understand the decisions made during the creation of Cornell’s Alumni and Giving sites and to empower you to make informed decisions about the sites moving forward.
Project requirements
Project documentation
Understanding the design system
- Design Principles Understand the insights that went into decisions on this project
- Content Guidelines Includes global page elements like navigation, calls-to-action, and page types
- Color
- Typography
- Images
Site administration
- Project Dependencies
- Local Development Setup
- Local Testing
- Deployments
- Environment Variables & Secrets
- Plugin Settings
- Theme Details
- Roles and Capabilities
- Events
- Site Search
- SSO, Shibboleth, & SimpleSAMLphp
Additional resources
The Alumni and Giving sites are developed on WordPress. These guidelines provide technical instructions for the parts of the site custom built for Cornell. Core WordPress functionality is not documented here, but is available in depth in the WordPress Codex and in WordPress’s robust support forums.
These sites were designed by Mule Design and developed by Reaktiv Studios.