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Web Services creates Web solutions for academic and administrative departments and programs at Dartmouth College. For a list of clients we support, see Client Web Sites in OmniUpdate.
We do not create Web solutions for "programs within departments," for example, Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, but we can offer a couple of options; see Web Site Pre-Planning.
Please note: * Items are only for clients using OmniUpdate, not the general Dartmouth community.
Web Site Design and Production*
Web Services provides guidance on the architecture, design, and content of client Web sites.
- Visual/graphic design
- Front-end (CSS, HTML, etc.) coding
- Information architecture
- Web site production
Consulting/Client Relations*
Web Services works in partnership with their clients on their content, technology decisions, and strategies.
- Consulting on Web site content and technology decisions
- Help develop Web site strategies
Quality Assurance*
We help produce consistent and accessible Web sites that can be accessed by everyone, including those with disabilities.
- Accessibility
- Standards compliance
- Structural integrity of Web sites/Web applications
Web Services offers a quality assurance service to its clients. To learn more about this service, see Website Quality Assurance Service.
Web Site and Content Management Support*
We provide one-on-one and group training and support for OmniUpdate (our content management system) and develop training materials for using OmniUpdate.
- One-on-one support and training w/OmniUpdate
- Group training on OmniUpdate and advanced features
- Development of support and training materials
- Coordinating with other support staff on OU support
- Rapid response for urgent requests
Web Applications and Web site Dynamic/Interactive Features*
The Web Services team consults with client departments by managing successful Web discovery and production projects while maintaining Dartmouth Web standards.
- Project planning/management
- Requirements gathering
- Design and specifications
- User-interface design
- Coding and testing
- Ongoing support and maintenance
Hosting
We provide the tools, services, and support necessary for members of the Dartmouth community to create and maintain their Web sites.
- Search engine
- Web usage statistics
- Web account creation and support
- Access Webster account info
- Password resets (OU*, Webster)
- OmniUpdate access level changes*
- Moving/deleting/renaming files*
- Integration with OU*
- Central FileMaker Pro database hosting for departments
- BlitzMail Bulletin topic system administration
Outreach
Web Services provides ways that colleagues can share their professional knowledge through the following Web groups:
- Web Forum
- CDUG*
- Web Producers
System Support and Maintenance
Following is a list of current systems we support and maintain that were developed at Dartmouth.
- Online events listing
- Campus map (in development)
- Form to email/data file processing*
- ISTS publication library
- Online Dartmouth Faculty Directory
- Permacode template - uniform shared codebase for campus Web sites (conception, update, troubleshooting)*
- In Your City
- Undergraduate Admissions interview tracking for applicants
- Online Health Services Clinic scheduling/sign-up
- CARS
- Online Faculty Balloting - Annual nomination/voting process for faculty members to Presidential-level academic a policy committees
- Faculty Committee/Council Preferences - annual self-nomination process for faculty members to non-Presidential committees and councils
- Web-based survey creation, deployment and data collection
- Distinguished Teacher Award - student-to-faculty rating system used to determine the Most Distinguished Teacher at Dartmouth, each year
- Presidential Scholars project listing/searching and online applications
- Undergraduate Research Grant Applications
- Hopkins Center Events usher preference and scheduling system
Webmaster
The Webmaster for Dartmouth provides the following services:
- Maintenance of the primary, public-facing Web hosting environment (www.dartmouth.edu)
- Maintenance of additional hosting environments, intended to be companion environments to the primary:
- Testing and development server, used by community members looking to build their own custom Web solutions
- Multiple production Web application servers, for hosting custom built or purchased solutions, across a variety of development environments
- Support for the central campus Media Cluster hosting environment, providing both large file downloading services as well as QuickTime Streaming services, primarily for audio/video files
- Virtual host (i.e. custom Web site URL) support across the Web hosting environment systems
- User account creation and life-cycle maintenance across all hosting environments
Web Strategy
- Web governance
- Business analysis and project planning for large-scale high-impact Web projects
- Web policies and procedures
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