What's New at Web Services

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We’ve come a long way since the first UIS home page (see image at right). In 1997, fewer than 50 pages made up the UIS website. Today, there are over 100,000 files on the primary website alone.

Helping all of the faculty, staff and students who participate in creating our website is a task that grows each day. We want to do our best to serve the campus, handling requests in a timely manner while continuing to innovate.

New procedure will help us provide better service to you

To help us acommodate your web and multimedia requests, we’ve created a short web-based form. We’d appreciate your using this form beginning on Monday, January 5 for all your requests. It will allow us to complete requests in the order received and provide the best possible service to you regarding new websites, changes to existing websites, or help with multimedia production.

Be sure to bookmark the URL of the form so you can easily access it whenever you need help from Web Services. Feel free to begin using it now for your requests, and let us know if there are changes or additions you would like to see.

Thanks for your help. Together, we’re creating a campus website that does exactly what it is supposed to do - represent UIS with “a high quality, marketing and service-oriented World Wide Web presence.*

*from the Campus Web Policy

Tip of the Week

Want to create a new page for your website? The best way to accomplish this is to make a copy of an existing page.

In Contribute, browse to the page that contains the left-side menu you want your new page to have.
Click on the New Page button, or choose File > New.
In the New Page Dialog box, select Copy of Current Page.
Enter a title for your page, i.e., Course List - Biology. Click OK.
The new page opens as a draft in Contribute. Edit the page. (Don't delete or alter the left-side menu. If you think you need a change there, contact Web Services.)
Choose Publish, or Send for Review. Be sure to create a short file name, i.e., courselist.html