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Website Building Service

The website building service managed by Digital Experience provides a central web content management system (CMS) for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº departments requiring a ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº-branded website on the www.ucl.ac.uk domain.

Why use the service?Ìý

All ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº departments or initiatives requiring a branded site on should use the website building service to meet their external digital communication needs.

Benefits of the Drupal CMS

The Drupal CMS is designed to meet the needs of web editors while ensuring that ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº websites are accessible, usable and reflect the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº brand. Hosting, maintenance and security updates are included and new features and functionality are released regularly.

Support from the Digital Presence team includes:

  • Developing, supporting and maintaining the Drupal CMS
  • Providing access, editor support and CMS trainingÌý
  • Management of the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº online brand and Indigo design frameworkÌý
  • Content strategy and user experience supportÌý
  • Information architecture developmentÌý
  • User research and testingÌý
  • Search Engine Optimisation advice and supportÌý
  • Website analytics advice and supportÌý
  • Domain name and URL advice and management

Find out more about DrupalÌý

Who can use the service?Ìý

Staff at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº who wish to use the central CMS for their main organisational unit website can use the website building service.Ìý

The website building and management service does not include:Ìý

  • Development or maintenance of websites which do not use ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº branding and are not on the ucl.ac.uk domainÌý
  • Support for other web technologies than the central CMSÌý
  • Support or hosting of personal websites Ìý

Need a non-branded website?

Colleagues requiring a non-branded non-¹û¶³Ó°Ôº domain site or with different technology requirements will need to engage external suppliers of web services. Ìý

Find out more on working with external web service suppliers