Welcome to the Swinburne Style Guide. This website provides a comprehensive guide of all the structures, styles, patterns and templates utilised across the Swinburne University website.
About this style guide
A Unified User Interface
Swinburne Styles promotes a consistent user interface across Swinburne University's digital properties. This will make the maintenance of our websites easier and empower our users to navigate around the entire website.
Using Swinburne Style
Each of the styles and patterns contained in this style guide have accompanying source code. Simply copy the required source code to build your own templates.
Living Styleguide
This document is designed to be a living document. It should reflect the styles utilised on the website as they evolve over the years. It is therefore encouraged that any updates to stylesheets and templates are added into Swinburne Styles.
Changes to Swinburne Style
If you are proposing changes to any of these styles, patterns or templates please contact the Swinburne Web Services team to have them integrated into this style guide and shared across the wider University.
Browser support
The following browsers are supported by Swinburne. Other browsers may function properly, but this is not guaranteed.
| Browser | Operating System | Supported Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Explorer | Windows | v9+ |
| Mozilla Firefox | macOS/Windows | Current release |
| Google Chrome | macOS/Windows/iOS/Android | Current release |
| Apple Safari | macOS/iOS | Current release |
| Android default browser | Android | Current release |
Asset locations
It is recommended that you reference the assets stored on Swinburne's webserver where possible. Doing so will allow updates to the stylesheet and javascript to be deployed automatically as the site design evolves.
CSS
| Asset | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-styles.css | Primary Stylesheet | //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/css/2016-styles.css |
| 2016-styles-old-ie.css | [DEPRECATED] Secondary stylesheet (for Internet Explorer 8) | //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/css/2016-styles-old-ie.css |
Javascript
| Asset | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-swin-responsive.js | Javascript to provide responsive design functionality for top navigation | //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/js/2016-swin-responsive.js |
| 2016-swin-responsive-ie.js | [DEPRECATED] Javascript providing necessary functionality for browsers that do not support responsive styles | //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/js/2016-swin-responsive-ie.js |
| AddThis Scripts | Swinburne implementation of the AddThis social media sharing widget |
//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=swinburneweb //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/js/_addthis_custom.js |
| modernizr-2.7.0.min.js | Modernizr javascript library to detect browser capabilities | //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/js/modernizr-2.7.0.min.js |
| widgets.js | Provides functionality for accordion and tab widgets | //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/js/widgets.js |
| Funnelback Search Scripts | Provides functionality for Funnelback site search |
//search.swinburne.edu.au/s/resources-global/js/jquery/jquery.tmpl.min.js //search.swinburne.edu.au/s/resources-global/js/jquery.funnelback-completion.js //www.swinburne.edu.au/import/wcms/js/_swin-search.js |
For more information
For more information on Swinburne styles please contact the Swinburne Web Services team at: websupport@swin.edu.au