Where can I get a Lab/Research Website?
Issue
You are a Faculty Member/Graduate Student who needs to have a Lab/Research Website set up.
or
You are a Faculty Member/Graduate Student who needs to have an account on an existing Lab/Research Website set up.
Please do not use static HTML pages for Lab/Research Websites, most do not meet the minimum UC required security or accessibility guidelines post April 2019.
Solution
At this time, ECI suggests that you arrange a meeting with the College of Engineering Marketing Department for a Department Sponsored Web Site.
The people you will need to contact is Andrew Masuda (head of CoE Marketing) and the CoE webmaster (webhelp AT engineering.ucsb.edu). Please schedule a time with them to work out the particulars and needs for the website.
All websites are Drupal based and hosted via UCSB's Pantheon Cloud Services. All websites made in this manner meet all UCSB security and accessibility requirements.
If your website does not meet UC required security or accessibility guidelines it can be taken down at the direction of UCOP, Campus, and/or senior administration at any time with no warning. UCSB is actively discouraging the creation of new websites in HTML in favor of Drupal based websites hosted out of UCSB Pantheon that support security and accessibility out of the box. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/7000611/IMT-1300
ECI is NOT responsible for any website hosted out of CoE accounts as those websites are only intended to be used to teach website creation in class and are NOT supposed to be used to host websites for class, research groups or services
Digital Accessibility: https://www.accessibility.ucsb.edu/digital-accessibility
Content Creators: Accessibility Resources: https://www.accessibility.ucsb.edu/digital-accessibility/content-creators-resources
LSCG Webdesign https://webdesign.lscg.ucsb.edu/ and MSI's Ocean'O'graphics https://msi.ucsb.edu/facilities-services/ocean-o-graphics also can create websites and post them to UCSB's Pantheon Cloud Services instance.
The College of Engineering as of Spring 2022 now has a new full time webmaster, Claudia Vizena. Please allow a few weeks of extra time on website requests due to backlog. Webpages, which are small additions to existing websites can be created far quicker. LSCG and MSI do have faster turnaround times for website creation, but do charge for their services and said fee is a recurring charge due to the need per UCSB policy for websites to be kept updated and secure.