EPAFiles: Web Design
Managing Outdated Pages
This guidance reflects Web Content Types and Review Procedure, issued March 29, 2011. Read the entire procedure before applying the instructions below.
The procedure defines and explains how to manage four types of information. This page describes how to properly label the third category: information that is still relevant to the public but cannot be updated, referred as "outdated."
How do I label outdated pages?
Display the standard notice and cobweb icon at the very top of the page, like so:
Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.
The <hr /> is part of the code and is deliberate. The file cabinet icon is pulled from the style sheet; you don't have to do anything more. Here's an example page (http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/samples/outdated.html).
Outdated Page Notice Source Code
The Outdated page disclaimer source code is available in the Code Library. NOTE: To help OEI track outdated pages, you must include the <epaold> and </epaold> tags.