Digital Media Services & Web Development
The Web Team is responsible for the general behind-the-scenes maintenance of http://www.iue.edu. Although they will occasionally make corrections to errors in the content, their primary function is to create the framework for content so that the departments themselves can maintain it. As of the last re-design (June 2007) there were over 10,000 pages!
They also provide web application solutions for online collaboration and interaction. There are frequently multiple projects going on at once, so if you have a project in mind, it would be best to contact them A.S.A.P. to get queued up.
Solutions Available
Have an idea for putting something new up on the web but not sure what to use? Do you have an information storage system that is becoming cumbersome or breaking? We offer and support these solutions (and others, by request):
- Generic web forms (a la surveys) with email and/or file submissions
- Data collection, storage, and reporting for archival or statistical needs
- Blogging software (We have been using WordPress, with much success)
- Promotional Websites to work in tandem with a paper-media promotional initiative
- Wiki software (MediaWiki, the same that Wikipedia uses) for collaborative projects
- Porting from legacy databases (i.e. Access) to more robust solutions (MySQL / T-SQL)
Technology Used
We use a mixture of PHP & ASP.NET for developing applications and dynamically managed sites. We provide backend database support on both MySQL and T-SQL. All sites are tested in Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 6 & 7. Incidentally, we advocate the use of standards-compliant browsers such as Firefox, Safari as opposed to the less-compliant Internet Explorer variety.
