This guide has been set up to provide information about the UEL website for departments around the university. It covers:
The UEL website is an information system that exists for the benefit of all members of the university community. It acts as a publishing medium for academic and central service information as well as facilitating the use of UEL's computing resources to provide staff the opportunity of exploiting information technology to achieve their goals whether they be academic or departmentally based.
To achieve this the Web Team acts as the hub of UEL web activity; liaising with IT Services, central departments, academic departments and research centres to enable them to exploit the possibilities that the Internet can offer.
UEL has a variety of computer networks. The majority of staff have access to computers that run under a Windows operating system. The website, though, is kept on a different network: a UNIX based system called "xena". When people browse through our webpages they gain access to xena, where the pages are kept. Their computers at home or in their office downloads these pages. A large amount of people can access a website at any one time so a UNIX system is used because it is faster and more efficient than Windows and is more secure so it allows people to view webpages without giving them direct access to the computers at UEL and change files.
This results in the following situation:
UEL Webteam administers the website on xena by setting up departmental areas that can be accessed only by those allowed within each department. A Departmental Co-ordinator is responsible for these areas of the website and administers them as they see fit. All we ask is that pages keep to the uniform style of the UEL website and are up-to-date.
There are a number of procedures that you need to go through to get webpages onto the UEL site. These are not related to pages for personal use but to official pages that represent UEL to the outside world. Contact the IT Services about getting your own personal web space.
Each department or service within UEL that wants a web presence needs to have a part of the website allocated to them. The following steps outline how this can be done. This is the same procedure for adding users to an existing departmental area.
If your department already has some web pages then the following procedure has already been gone through. You need to contact your departmental co-ordinator about web related issues.
Access to departmental areas is controlled by the departmental co-ordinator. You need to contact them if you wish to add web pages to your department's area. The departmental co-ordinator will then contact the Webteam
The UEL website is the joint responsibility of three groups:
Contact Web Team if you:
Your first port of call for website issues should be your departmental co-ordinator. They have been appointed by Heads of Department in consultation with UEL Webteam to maintain the web pages specific to your department. If they cannot deal with your enquiry they will put you in touch with the Webteam.
If you do not have a departmental co-ordinator then contact the UEL Webteam immediately at webteam@uel.ac.uk
The departmental co-ordinator:
The university's IT Services is responsible for the hardware that the website exists on. They are not responsible for content or navigation issues.
Their main jobs in relations to the UEL website are
All contact should go to the Helpdesk on ext. 2468
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