The UIS Website Project
When you are ready to have a new website created for your department, please let us know. We will be happy to meet with you to explain the process and help you get started.
Basically: you gather the content; we make the website; we train you and give you software; and then you maintain the new site.
Please contact us at: webservices@uis.edu to arrange a meeting.
What you need to know:
Download the applicable information to
prepare your new website.
The General Info Sheet includes basic information for everyone.
The Site Maps for academic and support units outline the content categories* for official unit websites.
The Guidelines suggest a process for organizing website content and images.
The Best Practices document will help you understand general principles about good website design and maintenance.
UIS Words and Phrases includes words and phrases used to recruit prospective students. You may use these in your website content.
Follow the UIS Web Style Guidelines as you maintain your new Contribute website.
* The content categories are based on the Official
UIS Web Policy.
Steps in the Process:
Step One:
Based on the Guidelines and the categories in the Site Map, the content
point-person from the unit gathers all content for the site and creates
Plain Text files. If you have photographs, please include the original
copies; do not edit the photographs.
Step Two:
Web Services determines the site's navigation and creates the
basic site and basic pages.
Step Three:
Menus, content, and photos are added to the site. The Marketing department
reviews the copy for the left side of the home page.
Step Four:
Department personnel review the site and suggest changes and additions.
Step Five:
Final changes are made by Web Services personnel.
Step Six:
Department personnel sign-off on the site via email. The site is then
uploaded to the primary web server by Web Services.
Step Seven:
Department personnel are trained to maintain the site with special
software that is installed on their computers.
Staging Server:
You can monitor progress of the redevelopment of your website at the
following URL (available on-campus or via VPN only):
About Contribute Training
Training sessions are by invitation only. Web Publishers and Writers will be invited to training when their new website is complete or almost ready.
(Hard-won experience has led us to not send a person to training before their new website is ready, no matter what the person's previous experience. You may have already had some web publishing experience in the past, but you have never worked with our templates, our web publishing system, our login system, and our servers. And in most cases, you may never have worked with Contribute.)
The training session is named Web Overview and Contribute Training. It lasts for 2 hours. You must attend the entire session to be given website access. The training is conducted by Munindra Khaund, Multimedia Education Coordinator in the Information Technology Services department (ITS).
Once you complete training, the ITS department will contact you to arrange a time to install Contribute software on your computer.
Scheduling
The Office of Web Services schedules production after we receive the content from a department or individual.
Each month, we post a Content Deadline for projects that we will work on during the following month.
- Please
see our Project Status page to view the current schedule of content
deadlines.
(This URL is available on-campus or via VPN only)
