- NEVER put sensitive or private information e.g. applications with personal data, on your Silva or Dreamweaver website, whether it's restricted to certain groups or not. Even if the information is not linked to/from a web page, it will reside on a server and this will NOT be secure. Please also see UCL's Computer Security Policy
Need help?
- For help with Silva-related issues, check the Silva Support pages
- For help with websites NOT in Silva and other web-related issues, email web-support [at] ucl.ac.uk
Planning a new website at UCL:
How to start: a successful website requires careful thought, so please follow our guidelines when planning, designing, structuring, writing and developing your site.
Recommended technology: if you are part of a team, department, faculty or division and need a website, we recommend you make use of UCL's Content Management System - Silva - which is supported through training, email and 1-2-1 support, and allows individuals to have editing rights i.e. allows for the sharing of editing duties amongst staff.
Your URL would be http://www.ucl.ac.uk/thenameyougive
Alternatives:
- If you would like to use Dreamweaver, UCL provides training but no further support and we would not recommend this approach for externally-facing web pages meant for prospective students, alumni, research partners or any of UCL's other major stakeholders.
Your URL would be http://www.ucl.ac.uk/thenameyougive
- If you are a member of staff (or student), and you would like to have a Personal website, you could build this in Dreamweaver (available on WTS) and once 'live', the URL would be http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~youruserID
Blogs at UCL:
If you would like a Blog (WordPress) for your department at UCL, check the Blog Info page.
If you would like a personal Blog (WordPress) as a member of staff at UCL, check the page for requesting Apache space as well as an MySQL account.
