Overview
Thanks for asking us to help you with creating and maintaining your web presence here at the Geisel School of Medicine. We are happy to build a website for you, which will be kept on our site – https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu. Most sites will use your program name or an acronym as the website address, e.g. https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/epidemiology or https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/admissions.
We typically have 4 sections for each site:
About Us – A short introduction to your program interests (e.g. Mission statement, etc.)
Research/Program – More in-depth content describing who you are and what you do.
Members/Faculty/Staff – Brief bio sketches and photos of your group.
Contact Us – Postal, phone, and email contact information, along with any special instructions for using those methods.
Additionally, some have requested additional sections to their sites, such as event listings, relevant links, photos of their work or of their activities, recruitment links (“join us”), and multimedia or other digital content that faculty have created.
We do not currently accept design documents for new sites - we design and code to a narrow specification to ensure continued maintainability. Because our sites use a common technology base, we are able to provide new features and functionality for ALL our sites as the Geisel School web progresses.
We do not currently offer hosting or maintenance for websites we do not create.
Getting Started
The best way to start your new site is to email us content for the four core sections.
About Us – For this section, you might consider a mission or core values statement, or a description of how the program developed.
Research/Program - Please include any current program activities, research, or other work. This will most likely be where most of the content about your program resides. We try to keep your information organized to make it easy to find and to be easy to read – many times we can link to Word or PDF documents you have rather than including their entire text in the website.
Members/Faculty/Staff – Please send high-resolution digital images of any faculty, staff, or program members you want on the site. We would like these photos large and not cropped – we will make sure they fit on the page and are scaled appropriately for the site.
Contact Us – We will need your postal, email, and phone information for this section. Please include any special instructions you want to be posted on the site regarding contacting you.
Once we have received your information, we will begin to create a draft website. The address for this site will be emailed to you when it is ready, and we can discuss changes you would like at this point as well as additional content areas you are interested in.
Background Graphics – We would like to use high-resolution imagery of your work for the background of your website. If you can provide us with a few images, we can choose one that will work best within our design framework. If you cannot provide this, we can find appropriate stock photography to illustrate your work.
Feel free to contact us with any questions you have or if you need more information to get started with your new site.