The university system provides a range of options for publishing and maintaining websites. Review the options below to guide you in selecting the platform that best meets your needs.
mySites@×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û
Build personal KSC, PSU, UNH, and ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û-branded WordPress sites quickly and easily using provided themes and plugins. Enterprise Technology & Services provides updates and maintenance to this platform. Choose part of your URL (e.g. sites.usnh.edu/yourname)
- Recommended for:
- Beginner, intermediate & advancedÌýusers
- Lab websites, research and blogs
- In-class/internally-facing projects
- Related informationÌý
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- TrainingÌý
When requesting a new website, please include the preferred site title.
Domain of One's Own
Build fully-customizable complex personal sites through cPanel accounts that allow users to instantly install top web applications. Ability to choose part or full site URL (e.g.Ìýyourname.usnh.domains orÌýyourname.org).ÌýSite owners are responsible for the development, maintenance and operation of these ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û websites.
- Recommended for:
- Intermediate & advanced users with complex projects
- Non-university branded projectsÌý
- Related informationÌý
When requesting a new website, please include the preferred site title.
Intranet (Internal) Sites
A private portal where university members can see and share news, updates, and documentation. Public links can be created and external members can be added to a site.
- Recommended for:
- Internal Department/Student Sites
×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û Drupal Websites
×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û official websitesÌýprovide information about offerings across our campuses to the public. These sites use Drupal, the university system's primary content management system. ÌýEnterprise Technology & Services (ET&S) offers site design, development, guidelines, training and ongoing support to set up and maintain Drupal websites.
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×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û Pressbooks
A easy-to-use bookÌýpublishing platform for creating and self-publishing books in several formats: e-books, web versions, and PDFs.Ìý
Custom Web & Mobile Applications
The ET&S Software Development team can support custom development requests for grant funded research. Ìý Consultation and proposals for funding are also supported.
Purpose & Audience
University Branded Sites
The purpose of ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û websites is to provide ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û colleges, schools, departments, offices, services and other organizations with ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û-branded, ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û-affiliated websites on a university system server. ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û ET&S Software Development offers site design, development, guidelines, training and ongoing support to set up and maintain ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û Drupal websites.
When youÌý, ET&S works with you through the whole process, from consultation, budgeting and planning to development and delivery and beyond, to ongoing support and maintenance. After consultation, if it’s determined that an outside vendor should create the site or application, ET&S will help you with that process.
To set up a ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û Drupal website, the following criteria must be met:
- ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û staff or faculty must request/sponsor a site for a department or organization with demonstrated need.
- Either no site currently exists where the material can be posted or a parent site exists under which the new site can be posted.
- No existing site/application exists that covers the same material or offers the same functionality.
Personal Websites
Personal websites are created by members of the University community acting as individuals rather than as official representatives of the University of New Hampshire.Ìý As such, this service is not to be used as the official website for any UNH college, school, institute, department, or administrative or service unit.Ìý
Site owners may elect to grant editing and other content creation and management rights to any other individual with a ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û account. Site owners, however, will ultimately be responsible for the site and its contents.Ìý
Authors of these pages are responsible for complying with all relevant laws, , and this Standard.
Individuals are responsible for backing up any website content that they post or remove.Ìý
If no edits have been made to a Sites@×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û or Domain of One's Own website in a year, email notifications may be sent to the site owner. After notification, the owner will have 30 days to log into the site, or the site will be unpublished. Notification emails will be sent out prior to the site being unpublished.Ìý
Intranet Sites
Intranet sites are primarily designed for use by internal ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û audiences. They can help facilitate communication and collaboration between groups, and allowed shared access to documents and files. Links to intranet documents can be also be shared with external audiences.
Testing, security and compliance requirements
- Testing - Whenever new content is added to a site, it is the content editor’s responsibility to test for:
- Mobile responsiveness
- ADA compliance
- Browser compatibility
- Security
- Website administrators must comply with all university system data security policies.
- Policy compliance -ÌýWebsite administrators are required to adhere to all university policies, including:Ìý
- Privacy
- Copyright compliance (must have permission to use photos and videos)
- Other ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û policy compliance
Content requirements
For information about adding and editing content in ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û websites, please refer to the Content guidelines.
Support
Sites@×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û, Domain of One's Own and Pressbooks are offered as self-service tools. For support needs please Ìýor attend a .
Responsibility for digital content
College and school websites are maintained by members of the university community acting as official representatives of ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û. Site owners and editors are responsible for complying with all relevant laws, ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û policies and this standard.
Violations
ET&S Software Development reserves the right to remove at any time any content that it considers in violation of this standard or any other ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û policies.
If inappropriate or inaccurate content is discovered, ET&S will contact the site owner to discuss the issue. If the site or content owner cannot be contacted or is no longer at ×î¿ì¿ª½±Ö±²¥½ÁÖé½á¹û, that content will be administered by ET&S and can be removed if deemed inaccurate or inappropriate. When content is obviously unacceptable, ET&S will immediately remove the content prior to contacting the site owner. Unacceptable entries also may cause site access to be suspended.
Reports regarding inappropriate content may be sent to .
