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Web Publishing at the UW

UW Blogs Network

UW faculty and staff can use the new UW Blogs Network to create a blog.

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Choose Your Publishing Platform

Web Publishing Options for Everyone

The following options are available to the UW community, and allow websites to be easily created without knowing HTML or prior web publishing experience.

UW Google Sites web publishing is available as part of the Google Apps for Education service.
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UW Google Sites
Catalyst CommonView web publishing and collaboration tool is offered as part of the Catalyst Web Tools suite of services.
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Catalyst CommonView

Web Publishing Options for Students, Faculty, Staff, Courses, and Departments

Web Publishing on Central UW Servers allows you to create your own website, including creating blogs and Content Management Systems on central UW servers. MySQL servers are also supported.
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Central Web Publishing

Web Publishing Options for Faculty, Staff, Courses, and Departments

UW Blogs Network provides an easy-to-use, UW-branded, centrally administered WordPress blog.
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WordPress Network

Specialized Web Publishing Options

Publishing on UW Home Page Servers supports the UW home page and other sites stemming off the root of washington.edu and uw.edu, and has different procedures and features than other central servers.
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Home Page Servers
Microsoft SharePoint is a hosted web-based platform that provides collaboration tools and tight integration with Microsoft Office.
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Microsoft Sharepoint

Local Departmental Servers. Your department may have web publishing environments already set up for your use. To see if any are offered and for more information, check with your local IT department.

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Web Publishing Resources

Guidelines and Rules

Terms of use and privacy policy

Non-student UW-affiliated sites are required to link to the UW Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

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Appropriate use of UW resources

Be sure that you're familiar with the Appropriate Use of UW Resources page on IT Connect.


Secure your site

As a site owner, you are responsible for its security. These guidelines outline your responsibilities. The Office of the Chief Information Security officer is also a valuable resource.