Goals of Web Development
Web Development serves as the primary maintainers of the SDState.edu domain. SDState.edu is built for students, faculty, staff, community members, industry specialists, and more; internal and external. As part of being the maintainers and developers of the largest university public site in South Dakota, Web Development fosters best practices and consistency across multiple technologies; works with the campus community to share their content effectively, and accessibly, and enables the presentation of content using the latest innovative and dynamic web practices.
Mission & Vision
- Foster excellence throughout the University’s web presence by ensuring continual development.
- Provide leadership and direction for web-related activities.
- Promote, support and sustain the online distribution of academic and research communications to respective audiences.
- Sponsor an environment of collaboration that integrates the use of innovative technologies within the University’s web communication landscape.
Web Development will advance a website that yields high-quality professional content, and ensures the use of industry standards web design, content management, search engine optimization, W3C accessibility criteria, and site performance.
Services
Web Guides
Discover new ways to create fantastic web experiences for your web page or website, what federal guidelines we need to follow or how to structure your site content.
Web Services Agreement
University Marketing and Communications (UMC) has established a list of baseline web services that it provides at no charge to all internal clients, including administrative offices, colleges, departments, service units and other groups.