Web Design and Development

Location: Library fifth floor
Telephone: 508-999-8575
Email: webdevelopment@umassd.edu
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

To serve the University community by developing, maintaining and promoting the University web site, UMass Dartmouth's communications hub.

Maintain the UMass Dartmouth web site. Perform periodic review and updates of the UMassD site, especially top-level areas. Perform content sweeps and evaluations to keep the UMassD web site current.
Manage UMassD Web: direct development for most sites/pages, with a focus on upper-level (top three levels) web sites/pages.
Create, design, develop, implement, and revise new and/or existing sites.
Consult, implement, and test web accessibility and usability. Maintain knowledge of disability access for the web and plan with accessibility in mind.
Design, develop, and support related university web projects.
Develop web applications.
Create and maintain web forms.
Supervise student web developers on relevant projects.

Advise customers on how to create a web site: training, assistance, assessment.
Provide web technology training.
Provide training, access, assistance, and updates for faculty web sites.
Provide technical support and training for web applications.
Provide training and support for the content management system, OmniUpdate.
Consult with users concerning web best practices: web code standards, web design/ layout standards, accessibility requirements and standards, usability best practices, and more.
Provide class web project assistance, as appropriate.
Respond to user questions and problems, as appropriate.

Partner with university departments/offices for content.
Provide written content for the site, as appropriate. Provide editorial support (proofing, etc.) for other web developers as needed. Write/edit reports, documentation, etc., as necessary, in both online and printed formats.
Compose, edit, review, and revise content for campus information resources (for example, web calendar and press release tools).
Manage content of CITS site and related CITS projects, whether online or in print.

Capture and edit images.
Provide graphic design and animation.
Capture, edit and deliver videos.
Provide digitization, compression, rendering, and formatting of raw video for web presentation.
Maintain video streaming server, monthly.

Test, recommend, and implement new web, Internet and communication technologies.

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