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We have listed the stages involved in building your new website but the Web Editor team is happy to come and meet with you to help and advise you at the initial web planning stage. Please contact us to arrange a visit.
Yes there are. Please refer to our web standards and best practice webpages.
All new websites are set up using either an academic or support service development website. This provides you with a basic website structure, folders and a contacts page which includes a table. We are now working to a common set of design standards which can be applied to homepages and selected high profile webpages. At present, designs are only applied by us. The following sites are examples:
Please get in touch if you'd like more information.
Both the Equality Act 2010 and the Special Education Needs and Disability Act 2001 (SENDA) require that websites are made as accessible as possible to those with disabilities. More details can be found in the University's web accessibility policy.
Guidance to help you create accessible content is provided in our web standards and best practice guide.
Attending the 'web accessibility and why it matters' workshop run by Staff Development is mandatory for site administrators and recommended for all content editors and reviewers.
A top-level URL is one with the following format http://www.bristol.ac.uk/xyzname/
A top-level URL could either be the actual location of your web pages, or a redirect to your web pages. For instance, http://www.bristol.ac.uk/international/ is the actual location of some of our international student web pages, whereas http://www.bristol.ac.uk/experts will redirect you to http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media/experts/.
Please see the information on top-level URLs page for details on the things to consider before applying for a top-level URL. All queries relating to top-level URLs should be sent to web-editor@bristol.ac.uk.
CMS stands for Content Management System and refers to the browser-based system used by web publishers to create, edit and publish web content.
Yes, we've put together a page specifically about copyright on the web.
We cannot host template-based web pages on a different domain name, but we can provide a redirect from an existing domain name to a top-level URL on the central web server.
Please see our where to get help, training and further information webpage for full details about training and support for site publishers.
We always advise, resources permitting, that you establish some dedicated web resource for the planning and long-term maintenance of your website. Remember, your website is probably your prime form of communication to a world-wide audience, so allocating a web resource is in your best interest.
When you request a new website, you are given a template website appropriate to your department (whether you are an academic department or a support service). The template website contains your basic website structure and includes folders and a contact page.
The CMS has been designed so that non-technical staff can create and publish web content easily. The CMS has an inbuilt word processor (Edit-on Pro) and allows all content to be viewed in draft mode before it is published to the live site. Workload can be shared between members of a department by assigning roles of reviewer and editor among team members. This helps reduce the bottleneck that can sometimes happen when only one member of staff knows how to publish information on the website.
We can help create homepages and design page layouts for your high profile pages. We can also advise on how best to structure your site, as well as offering guidance about presenting your information. This is a free service available to all departments.
If you are considering using an external company to set up your site, please contact us for practical advice about choosing the right company for your needs. All websites must adhere to the University's web accessibility policy, and it is important that any company you use is aware of the standards required at the outset of a project. This can save a lot of time, effort and money.
Bear in mind that any external agency/web designer may not have access to UoB systems. In addition, you may not want to rely on an external agency for the long-term maintenance of your website, in which case an internal resource is proably the best option.
Full details of the review and launch procedure are described on the website review and launch webpage.
All CMS websites are comprehensively reviewed prior to being launched. Please read our website review and launch webpage for more information.
CSS stands for cascading style sheet. Information about style sheets can be found under the question, What's a style sheet?
Style sheets are used in good web design to separate content from styling. They allow web designers to make changes across an entire website from a central page (the style sheet) rather than having to change code that is embedded within each individual page.
If you wish to apply the University web design to a web application or service (eg Staffinfo, BORIS, Travel to Work, IRIS etc), please contact us for advice.
If you are using the news upload form (within a CMS website) or if you have a news RSS feed your news can appear on the news direct from schools page.
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