Please note that once your website is made live, responsibility for ensuring the accessibility of content on your website lies with your website administrator.
The University's reputation and competitive position is increasingly dependent on the quality of its web.
Before your website is launched, we will review it to ensure it meets our quality standards and the needs of its internal and external audiences. We will also check the University's web standards and best practice guidelines have been followed and whether the content complies with house style.
You may be asked to make amendments where necessary. Once you have confirmed amendments have been completed, we will approve the website for launch.
You should allow three weeks for the review process to take place. During busy periods, such as the few weeks before the beginning of a new academic year, this timeframe may be extended. You will be informed if this is the case.
Request a reviewYou will receive notification by email when your website has been approved for launch. You will need to let webmaster@bristol.ac.uk know the date your website should go live.
If you are replacing a website, your new website is unlikely to have the same structure as your old one. Automatic redirects will be put in place to ensure users who try to visit pages on your old website, ie via a bookmark, are automatically redirected to your new website. This avoids broken links.
You may have high-profile pages (pages that are visited a lot) on your old website which have exact matches on your new website. In cases like this, a page-to-page redirect can be created, eg http://www.bristol.ac.uk/old-url-of-department/contacts.html could be redirected to http://www.bristol.ac.uk/new-url-of-department/contacts.html. Please inform webmaster@bristol.ac.uk of specific page redirects if you have any. Otherwise all pages from your old website will be redirected to your new homepage.
If your homepage is in a new location, the corporate indexes (including the a-z index) will be updated with your new URL. If you have an entry in PIMS, the URL against it will be updated.