Web Design and Administration

Administration

Permissions

UWT has a live website (W:\) and a development website (V:\). You can give as many people from your department access to the development site as you'd like. Permissions to the live site are much more restrictive. One person from your department should have permissions to the live site. To give/revoke web editing permissions to your website send a Compuer Services help request.

Web Server(s)

Computer Services Administers the Web server(s) and permissions to edit various websites.

Website Design

UWT departmental template

Computer Services, time permitting, can create a new site, or convert your existing site to the UWT departmental template* at no charge. This process will require a significant amount of time on your part.

How to get the UWT departmental template

Below is a list of the basic steps involved in creating/converting your site to the departmental template:

1. Send a help request to tachelp
2. We will schedule an initial meeting
   • involving you and one (or possibly both) of our web developers (Kris Symer and/or James Woods)
3. Gather/Write/Submit your content
   • Usually, the easiest way to get your content to is by creating a series of Microsoft Word Documents. Details below.
4. Decide on a color scheme.
5. Computer Services creates the site
6. Computer Services and the requesting department review and edit the site
7. Computer Services will launch the site
8. Computer Services and the requesting department will check the site for accuracy

* Examples of UWT departmental template

Some examples of the UWT departmental template

• Business
• Campus Cashier
• Campus Safety
• Enrollment Services
• IAS
• Student Affairs
• Urban Studies

Help

Request help

All requests for help must be submitted to tachelp.

Help creating Microsoft Word documents for website creation

There are some specific guidelines that you need to follow in order for Computer Services to create your website based off of Microsoft Word documents:

One Microsoft Word document per web page.

Each Word file you create will be converted into a page on the website

Naming conventions

Only use letters, numbers, and the underscore (_) character.

Your "homepage" should be named index.doc

Page Title

File->Properties->Summary (tab)->Title:(text field)

Use headings

Organize your documents into logical sections and make good use of headings (like they taught you in Report Writing 101 ;^).

Resources

Software

Required software is listed in the Webmaster Toolkit. To order any software, please submit a Computer Services Help request.

Misc

Web Accessibility Aids

This document outlines some quick tips to help you make your web pages accessible.

Custom Tag library

This page has a list of Cold Fusion custom tags to make maintaining your website easier. If you are a programmer, custom tags are essentially functions. If you are a non-programmer, don't worry, these custom tags are for you too. Each one is documented and has code samples.