Information for Web Developers
The following topics are of interest to web developers creating official websites for the UCSF School of Pharmacy, such as a site for any unit, department, lab, or program affiliated with the School.
Set up or redesign your site
Web Developer's Guide - How to build and manage an official website for the School.
- Assess and secure your existing resources.
- Determine your goals.
- Review our minimum skill requirements.
- Buy hardware and software.
- Set up your domain name if needed.
- Choosing a domain name and URLs - Best practices for how to choose.
- Set up your connection to the server.
- Build your site.
- Style Guide - How to code web pages to meet the technical and visual specifications of the School.
- Ensure that search engines rank your site well
- Set up redirects.
- Publicize your site.
Shaping the School's web future
Web Communicators Working Group - This group is composed of web owners and web workers from each of the School's 3 departments as well as the Dean's Office communications team. Its work is summarized in our School of Pharmacy Web Standards which describes the criteria that all School websites will eventually be encouraged to meet.
Go To: School of Pharmacy home page
Information for supervisors of web developers
Supervisor's Guide - How to hire a web developer for your School of Pharmacy website.
Maintain an existing site
- Accessibility - The who, what, why, and how of making your website accessible to people with disabilities
- Security - Data security, server hardening, digital certificates, more
- Usability - Ensuring that people can use your website easily in order to achieve a particular goal.
- Linkchecking - Which web pages have broken links?
- Statistics - Usage reports of our websites
- Community - Discuss web issues with other UCSF web developers
Websites for course materials
If you're a UCSF faculty member and you want to put course curriculum materials on the web, see the Center for Instructional Technology.
Websites for student organizations
If you're a UCSF faculty member, student, or staff member and you want to create a web site for a student organization, contact the Office of Student Life (OSL).
