Guidelines for the CityU Chinese Web

As the official language of the University is English, the CityU website is predominantly an English site with the majority of pages written in English only.
A Chinese web has been developed to supplement or as auxiliary to our English website. These Chinese web pages are not necessarily direct translations of the English pages; many of them are complementary descriptions of the University, the departments/units, or particular events and activities written in Chinese.

The Chinese web pages are designed so that they can be viewed in either traditional or simplified Chinese fonts. To standardize development efforts, Unicode is used for internal coding of the Chinese web. The contents of the pages are developed using the traditional Chinese font, and conversion into the simplified font is made "on the fly" with the help of appropriate software. The following points provide a simple guide to Chinese web pages construction:

1. The Chinese web pages are auxiliary to our English website, not necessarily direct translation of the main pages.
2. Unicode is used as the internal code.
3. Pages are developed in traditional Chinese fonts and converted to the simplified one "on the fly" with software.
4. Each department must decide whether to use English or Chinese as the preferred language for its web pages.
5. With one language chosen as the preferred, an introduction to the department in the other language must be included as an auxiliary page

A link will be provided from the CityU HomePage to a Chinese auxiliary "homepage" having an introduction to the University as well as explaining the language policy used in the CityU website. All links from this auxiliary homepage will be in Chinese. From the HomePage, users are expected to follow the English links to get the English pages, while from the auxiliary Chinese homepage; Chinese links should be followed to get Chinese pages. As the Chinese pages are meant to be supplementary, as users drill down through the Chinese links, eventually they will reach the end of the Chinese pages provision, at which point they will be referred to the English pages by reference links.