The Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) maintains a unified online identity by requiring its websites to be in the Energy.gov Drupal environment and use common CMEI navigation. Some partnership websites have their own look and feel.
Please note that all CMEI websites—even partnership websites—must meet the requirements for federally funded websites, such as the accessibility requirements in Section 508.
If you have questions about the current or former web templates, please contact the CMEI Digital Team. Please note that this email address is only for internal inquiries regarding CMEI digital communication projects.
Energy.gov Template
CMEI websites should be hosted in the Energy.gov Drupal environment. These websites use Energy.gov's standard Drupal layout template.
Examples of different types of content templates are available on the CMS Support site (requires login to Energy.gov CMS backend).
Application Template
Any web application hosted outside of the Energy.gov Content Management System that is branded to CMEI must use CMEI's application template. Applications should follow the application style guide.
Template Exceptions
Websites may be approved to be hosted outside of Energy.gov when CMEI is contributing funds to an activity, but is not the primary sponsor and doesn't have primary editorial control over the website. These are considered partnership websites. The Web Governance Team (WGT) must pre-approve partnership websites. Read about the requirements for partnership websites.
The WGT must approve any other requests for websites that will not use the Energy.gov template.
Event Websites
Websites for CMEI-sponsored events should be developed in the Energy.gov template, hosted on one of CMEI's approved locations, and use CMEI's approved and commonly used navigation labels.
Event homepages should have the event's name, location, dates and a brief description of the event.
You may use external websites to host your registration pages and to collect your registrants' information, as long as they meet CMEI's requirements for a secure hosting environment.