Departmental Web site 40-hour Service Offering

The Franklin OIT Web team has created a free program for Major Units in Franklin College (Departments, Centers and Institutes). By participating in this free program, you get the benefit of our expertise and advice on how to improve the content of your site based on best practices. The other great thing about this program is that we not only make recommendations for improvements, but we also do the work for you. We spend up to 40 hours of time working with you on your site. We may go over 40 hours if there are major improvements that we believe will benefit Franklin College as a whole, and you agree to these changes.

The scope of service applies to an entire unit web site and is not meant to improve a specified area of your site. We take a wholistic view of your site and look for site wide improvements that benefit all audience members.

The time commitment is very minimal for you. We ask you (or your delegate and decision maker) to spend 1 hour on a zoom call to go through the recommendations that we have. Then after we have done the work, we ask you to spend an hour or so looking through the changes to make sure everything is as you expected based on our agreed upon changes. 

OIT Roles and Responsibilities

OIT will provide the following as part of the 40-hour Service

1. OIT will perform a content audit of your web site

2. OIT will look for opportunities to improve navigation, general page formatting, increasing visibility of academic and research based content.

3. Upon request and in alignment with Franklin Marketing and Communications, OIT will look for photos in the UGA Digital Arch system to add to interior page content.

4. OIT will meet with client to discuss findings and recommendations and create a work plan

5. OIT will implement all approved changes

6. OIT will notify client to review changes.

Client Roles and Responsibilities

Client will perform the following duties as part of the 40-hour Service

1. Client agrees to meet with OIT to discuss suggested findings and recommendations and agree to a work plan

2. Client will review the site and provide feedback if changes are needed, and finally approve the project for closure

Requesting Use

Please reach out to Franklin OIT via our helpdesk ticket system. Specify you are interested in the 40 hour project and we will work with you to schedule. We have to balance these projects with our daily work priorities.