Web Services

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Web Publishing at Providence College

Web Services oversees web design, development, architecture, accessibility, and support for all official Providence College web sites. We will help you plan and build web projects, and we provide comprehensive support for all web content editors across the college. We also offer training on supported web publishing tools and provide web analytical data reporting.

Web publishing environment

Web Services supports two web publishing platforms. Most of the College’s externally facing websites are hosted in WordPress. Supplemental and internal content is published in Microsoft SharePoint. Training and support are available for both platforms.

Keep up with Web Services

We send out a newsletter once or twice a semester to keep web editors up to date on changes in our web publishing environment. You’re encouraged to sign up for the newsletter!

Web Professional Development

As an institutional member of the Higher Education Web Professionals Association (HighEdWeb, or HEWeb, for short), Web Services offers all members of the Providence College community access to HighEdWeb’s professional development library of hundreds of videos on many web topics, including writing for the web, accessibility, analytics, and more. If you would like access to this repository, you’re welcome to join HEWeb through our institutional membership.

Once you’ve joined our institutional membership, head over to HEWeb to watch this presentation, and many more on many web-related topics.

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What’s standing between you and a more usable website? Five minutes.

“Auditing a website is a big, daunting task. That’s why we’re sharing our five-minute webpage analysis.

This process was created to use with our web editors and student workers during a web redesign project. In this presentation, we will share our exercise of walking through the following elements of a webpage: title, headings, readability, CTA, findability and brand alignment. While none of these topics alone are groundbreaking, putting them on a rubric you can use in five minutes gives you a starting point — instead of being overwhelmed by the urge to start over.

Our aim is to make our pages 10% better in five minutes.”