... a Web directory on www.bu.edu

Who Can Use This Form

For Official Use Only. Boston University faculty and staff who want a Web directory on the central server to house the official site for a research center, academic department, or administrative unit can use this form.

For Live Sites Only. If this directory is for a completely new site, please request a web site development directory first. The development directory will allow you to develop your site content in a location where it will not be prematurely indexed by search engines.

Not For Redirects. If you would like to request a top-level URL to redirect visitors to your existing site, please request a Marketing URL.

Not For Course Sites. Faculty who would like a website for their class should request a CourseInfo or WebCT site.

Not For Personal Sites. Faculty, staff, students and student groups who would like a personal website should request space on people.bu.edu.

* denotes required field

About Site

This site will be the official site for the following department (specify name) *
I am authorized by the above department to request this site. *
I confirm that the above department does not currently have a web site on www.bu.edu. *
I confirm that the content for this site has already been developed *
URL (address) of the development location for this site *

About Site Name

Select a directory name that is short, descriptive, and is all lowercase characters. The name you select will be part of the URL to your web site. Your URL will be part of your department's "brand," just as your name and logo are. It should be easy to say, and should match how you answer the telephone, what you put on your business cards, stationery, and correspondence.

If your development site is within http://www.bu.edu/dev/, the directory name here should match the one you chose when you created your development site.

Directory Name *

Examples: Directory Name	Resulting URL
registrar	http://www.bu.edu/registrar/
law	http://www.bu.edu/law/
history	http://www.bu.edu/history/

My department head has approved this directory name. *

About Site Sponsor

The sponsor is the person who will coordinate and manage the new site. Note that administrative access gives you privileges to change access levels of contributors and add or remove contributors.
Sponsor's Name *
Sponsor's BU Login *

About Site Contributors

If other individuals need access to the site to make changes, list them below. Also specify whether to grant them administrative privileges. Site Administrators can change this list at any time.

Note that in order to be granted access to edit the site, each user must have a BU email address. If any of the users working on your site do not have a BU email address, they can apply for one.

Copy all users from the development directory? *

Yes
No

Enter the information for any additional users below. If there are more than 3 additional users that need access to this site, please list their names, BU email addresses and whether or not they should have administrative access in the comments section below.