For Official Use Only. Boston University faculty and staff who want a development space on the central server to develop content for the official site for a research center, academic department, or administrative unit can use this form. Not For Course Websites. Faculty who would like a website for their class should request a CourseInfo or WebCT site. Not For Personal Websites. Individuals and student groups who would like a personal website should request space on people.bu.edu. * denotes required field
For Official Use Only. Boston University faculty and staff who want a development space on the central server to develop content for the official site for a research center, academic department, or administrative unit can use this form.
Not For Course Websites. Faculty who would like a website for their class should request a CourseInfo or WebCT site.
Not For Personal Websites. Individuals and student groups who would like a personal website should request space on people.bu.edu.
* denotes required field
If you have a large website and you do lots of development, you might consider requesting a separate development directory. Your new development directory would be located in http://www.bu.edu/dev/. Several departments already have space there. Sites that are completely new to the BU web should first request a development location to develop and test their site content. There are several benefits to having a development directory: By moving out frequently changing development content, you reduce the amount of synchronization needed in your live site. You can better separate your live public site from your developmental or internal one, thus reducing the chance of accidentally linking to work in progress. Your broken links report will not be cluttered with temporary problems that you are experiencing in development. Because the entire /dev/ directory is excluded from search engines, there is little chance that content in development will surface prematurely in search engines. Your directory within /dev/ will have the same name as the directory for your live site. You will have full control over the content in your directory, just as you do for your live site. You will also have full control over who has administrative and contributor access to this new directory. We encourage any department with a substantial amount of site development work to apply for a development directory.
If you have a large website and you do lots of development, you might consider requesting a separate development directory. Your new development directory would be located in http://www.bu.edu/dev/. Several departments already have space there.
Sites that are completely new to the BU web should first request a development location to develop and test their site content.
There are several benefits to having a development directory:
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 department currently has a site within http://www.bu.edu/, the directory name here should match the one you chose when you created your top-level site.
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 department currently has a site within http://www.bu.edu/, the directory name here should match the one you chose when you created your top-level site.
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.
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.
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.
Enter the information for any additional users below. If there are more than 3 additional users that need access to the development location, please list their names, BU email addresses and whether or not they should have administrative access in the comments section below.
