Web Services for Official Business Pages on the USFSP website

Web Services is the starting point and a resource for web development of official USF St. Petersburg university web pages. As part of the communications and marketing effort within University Relations, Web Services is responsible for innovating, directing and providing website functionality on the official USF St. Petersburg website.

Contribute Web Page Editor Assistance

Web Site Training & Contribute Help:
:: Contributor Help Desk: http://www.usfsp.org/helpdesk/index.asp
:: Contribute Training - Offered throughout the year at your convenience - please contact John Husfield - email husfield@spadmin.usf.edu
:: Contribute Basics - Online guide and training movies
:: Contribute Manual (.pdf) - Macromedia provided manual
:: Contribute 3 Manual - Quickstart 3rd party manual

Webmaster's responsibilities

The webmaster assumes campus-wide responsibility and leadership for the USF St. Petersburg web site: planning and implementing the overall site architecture, functionality and user interface.

The position also assumes responsibility for the management of the web site: planning, implementing and administering the content management system. This system consists of web content owners; author and subject matter experts; contributors; web designers; web developers; and software components. Read more.

Webmaster's site-wide initiatives 08-09

1. Support University Relations enrollment marketing efforts:
   - Concentrate web page editors focus upon link maintainenceas a routine effort. (Complete)
   - Optimize current web site pages that affect enrollment (home pages: CAS; COE; COB; Enroll; Housing; Admissions; Tour; etc.) to maximize marketing impact. (Complete)
   - Implement Google Analytics on the USFSP web site (2008 - Testing Phase) .
   - Promote the use Analytics to provide data about visitor web site use. (On Hold)
2. Implement web page banners (at page bottom) to provide another avenue for internal communications. These banners will be able to target our largets constituents: Prospective Students; Our Students; Visitors; Faculty & Staff; Alumni & Parents; and Community. (Complete)
3. Build a speakers bureau web application (database) to enable university relations to respond to speaker and expert requests from the community. (Reserach Phase)
4. Build a movie channel to enable campus messages by embedding movies about our mission, our services, our faculty, and our students on USFSP web pages. These movies will enable us to more effectively communicate the value USFSP adds to our region. (In Process)
5. Implement the design and build for a new Arts and Sciences homepage. (On hold due to budget cuts)
6. Implement admissions focused "get-to-know-us" marketing movies (In Process)

Webmaster's site-wide initiatives 06-07

1. Support University Relations enrollment marketing efforts:

• Plan and build initial enrollment marketing FTIC Admissions web site (2006 - completed) .
• Manage the Hobsons build of enrollment marketing pages (questionnaire pages):
  • FTIC: https://emt.askadmissions.net/stptusf/emtinterestpage.aspx?ip=freshman
  • Transfer: https://emt.askadmissions.net/stptusf/emtinterestpage.aspx?ip=transfer
  • Graduate: https://emt.askadmissions.net/stptusf/emtinterestpage.aspx?ip=graduate
    
  • International: (Project transferred to Enrollment Services)

    (2006 - Hobsons project completed - National Award Winner)

• Plan and build Hobsons enrollment push page content blocks FTIC; Transfer; Graduate; (2006 - completed) and International Students (Project transferred to Enrollment Services)
• Build html pages for static Hobsons e-communication messages (2006 - completed)
• Plan and manage design of Hobsons Flash e-communication messages (2006 - completed)
  
• Plan and manage design new enrollment marketing site for FTIC; Transfer; Graduate; and International Students : http://www.stpt.usf.edu/enroll/ (2007 - completed)
1. Implement new designs for campus home pages project:
   1. Campus home page; (2007 - completed)
   2. GoUSFSP; (2007 - completed)
   3. COE home page; (2007 - completed)
   4. COB home page; (2007 - completed)
   5. CAS home page (2007)
2. Plan, design and implement RSS feeds to display news and events dynamically on the homepages (2007 - completed)
3. Plan, design and implement RSS feeds to display content dynamically on template pages. (2007 - completed)
4. Plan and implement web site architecture on the new asp.NET server. (2007 - completed)
5. Consult with Campus Computing during asp.NET system software configuration. (2007 - completed)
6. Plan, manage design and implement new campus-wide templates (2007 - completed)
7. Move campus web sites into the new templates (2007 - completed)
8. Review LIFTMobil technology implementation for USF. (2007 - completed)
9. Implement system-wide LIFT technology on the USFSP web site to enhance website accessibility and section 508 compliance (Americans with Disabilities Act). (2007 - completed)
10. Plan for USFSP portion of a system-wide Virtual Campus Tour. (2007-2008 Cancelled: Cut from budget)