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Publishing Options for Colleges, Departments, and Organizations

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Web Publishing for Student Organizations

Publish a Web site for your student organization on Web Central.

Cost: $10/year

  • Students
  • Special area for student organizations
  • Technologies include static HTML, CGI scripting, and PHP
  • URL: studentorgs.utexas.edu/nameyouchoose

Web Publishing on Web Central (Departments)

The place for colleges, departments, and organizations to publish Web sites on www.utexas.edu.

Cost: $10/year

  • Staff
  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • Recommended for official university Web sites
  • Technologies include static HTML, CGI scripting, PHP, MySQL (additional charge), and streaming video
  • No preset disk space quota
  • URL: www.utexas.edu/nameyouchoose

Custom Web Publishing

For departmental and research unit Web sites that require a custom URL and content hosting.
Green IT: Consolidating your server needs by using ITS hosting saves significant power - approximately 6570 kWh per year per server.

Cost: Cost depends on services needed

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • A specialized name within the utexas.edu, utexas.net, or utexas.org name spaces, or a custom URL, such as blantonmuseum.org (domain names must be registered)
  • Technologies including static HTML, Perl/CGI scripting, PHP, or ColdFusion; for custom frameworks, such as Ruby, Python, and .NET, please refer to the Virtual Server service
  • Two e-mail aliases in the form of username@customdomain; for support of a larger number of mailboxes, ITS can host e-mail on the Exchange service
  • 24-hour operator coverage with daily backups
  • Access to Helix Streaming Media Server
  • Access to an IBM Rational Policy Tester account for accessibility, broken links and other site quality issues
  • Supports connections to a MySQL or SQL Server database
  • Supports SSL-based authentication (requires an SSL Certificate)

Web Publishing on Windows

Windows-based (IIS) shared Web hosting services includes access to ColdFusion, SQL Server, and integration with Austin Active Directory and Austin Disk Services.

Cost: Cost depends on options selected

  • Faculty
  • Departments

SharePoint

Manage your team's documents and boost collaboration with a centrally-accessible, Web-based application.
Green IT: Collaborating electronically with remote colleagues reduces travel and therefore your carbon footprint.

Cost: $1200/year

  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • Access to your SharePoint site is by invitation only (UT EID logon required).
  • Easily create knowledge bases, online surveys, discussion boards, and chats.
  • A one-year license includes 90 minute set-up consultation, plus 1 hour of consulting per month.
  • 1 GB disk storage (additional storage is available).

Webcasts and Streaming Media

Provides live Webcasts and archival encoding of streaming media files.
Green IT: Watching Webcasts instead of traveling to events reduces your carbon footprint.

Cost: No cost

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Technical Staff
  • Departments
  • Produce Webcasts - real-time delivery of sound and video over the Internet.
  • Archive streaming media files.
  • Encode audio and video programming at bandwidths to serve a number of audiences, from 28 Kbps dial-up modem users to 220 Kbps campus LAN users.
  • Encoded Webcasts are viewable with RealPlayer.