Web Design & Creation for Departments
Official University Website Template
The official University website template has a simple, clean design based on the main www.uchicago.edu website, and visually establishes a strong connection to the University of Chicago. Emphasizing your department or group’s tie to the University with a template site strengthens your message, helps with prospective student outreach, and gives users a cohesive experience across UChicago websites.
It’s likely that there will always be a variety of strong website designs representing the University online, but for those wishing to simplify the website design process, save money with an affordable solution, and benefit from strong UChicago branding, a template site is a good choice. A template site best suits departments, offices, labs, and other groups that are directly linked to the University and have small to medium-sized sites.
The Template Design
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Web Express: Keep Your Site Updated
Another benefit to the template site is the inclusion of Web Express, a page update tool. If you can use a word processing program, you can edit your website with Web Express. All template sites come with Web Express, and require users to pay an annual license fee.
Template Pricing
The basic cost associated with a template site is an annual $1500 Web Express license fee—this level of payment includes up to 5 users. If you will have more than 5 editors working on your site, please contact us to discuss the annual license fee. The annual fee covers the following services:
- Choice of three home page layouts: focus on news and events, focus on welcome message with related links, focus on welcome message with small feature
- Inner page template
- Virtual host (web address) approval and setup
- Web Express accounts for up to 5 users (more users involves an additional fee)
- Web Express training and support
- Setup of basic page templates for your site (clients can build out their sites using Web Express)
- The creation of basic graphics needed for the template (header, homepage image)
Additional Assistance
If you need additional assistance (for example, building out your template site, creating a new section, or editing graphics) Web Services can help! Contact us for more information on available services and hourly rates.
Getting Started
If you are interested in a template site or working with Web Services on a custom web project, please fill out the Web Services Inquiry Form.
Last updated: 8/12/09