Listed below are web hosting options available to Tufts faculty, staff, and students. Please note that the Emerald server is no longer an option for new personal or departmental web spaces.
Spark
Spark Wiki spaces, built in a matter of minutes, can be easily designed as a publicly accessible web site that you can edit and collaborate on from any computer with Internet access. Developed by UIT's Academic Technology, Spark is a suite of the next generation web tools that make integrating blogs, video, forums, annotated video and audio, and podcasts into your web site simple and easy. Spark wikis and blogs are available to faculty, staff, and students and can be retained even if your affiliation with Tufts ends.
Click here to learn more about Spark suite of web tools.
Click here to view the list of Spark How-To videos.
Click here to view the Using Theme Builder to Customize Your Spark Wiki class manual
University Relations Web Communications
For departments and groups across Tufts that are interested in launching a new website or revamping the look of an existing site, the Office of Web Communications offers both web templates and a content management tool. Developed by Web Communications, the Thinwire content management system enables non-technical users to easily create and maintain web content. Clients launching sites in Thinwire can choose from two different web templates that have been designed to complement the websites of Tufts’ various schools.
For more information about Thinwire, please contact Web Communications at http://ur.tufts.edu/?pid=149.
ITS Web Services for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Information Technology Services (ITS) provides unique and comprehensive web services to Arts, Sciences, and Engineering departments, centers, institutes and student organizations. In addition, they offer consultations, professional designs, development, and web updates.
For a detailed listing of their services, see http://ase.tufts.edu/its/web.htm.
Blackboard (hosting accounts are for faculty only)
http://blackboard.tufts.edu/
Blackboard is a tool commonly used by university faculty for posting course information and documentation online. Faculty can request a Blackboard account by contacting the Blackboard Administrator. Be sure to type Blackboard account request in the subject line.
Tufts Library Web Development Team, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
The Tufts Library Web Development Team will create a directory on the main veterinary site for any officially constituted department or group.
For more information, visit the TCSVM Web Styleguide.
University Relations Visual Identity System
Although not a service, the University Relations Visual Identity System helps web site developers select Tufts approved typefaces, colors, and watermarks (logos). Click here to view the current listing on the University Relations web site.
To download copies of Tufts approved watermarks (logo) for use in web and print publication, register with your Tufts firstname.lastname email address at http://ur.tufts.edu/visualidentity/wordmark/register/.
Resources Beyond Tufts
Google Sites
http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html
Google offers free web space, site creation templates, and tools to anyone who is interested. They offer examples of how individuals and clubs are creating attractive sites with image galleries, announcements, collaborative editing tools, and a Microsoft Word style page editor.
