About web publishing

Our website is:

  • a core business and communication tool, providing information and services for our students and staff
  • a core marketing and promotional tool locally, nationally and internationally

The Purpose, Aims, Objectives and Principles statement is our guiding strategic document. It outlines what we aim to achieve through our site and who our key audiences are.

Our web publishing community has a vital role to play in ensuring that we maintain a high-quality, relevant and useful website. To assist you, we provide a range of services through this site.

Who does what

The Web Management Guidelines provide detail about roles and responsibilities for the site. These are summarised below.

Information Technology Services

  • Responsible for centrally administering our corporate web presence.
  • Provide support, advice, training, CMS administration, web development services.
  • Has technical responsibility for supporting our web presence.

Service Desk

  • The first point of contact for all web-related requests for support, troubleshooting and advice.

Marketing

  • Provide advice on the use of the University logo and branding on the website.

The University community

  • Each area of the University has responsibility for creating and maintaining web content within their designated area(s) of the website.

Standards and guidelines

We have a responsibility to comply with web standards. This includes internal guidelines and processes, as well as nationally and internationally recognised standards. Compliance ensures that our website is of a consistent quality, is well-managed, and is both usable and accessible to the widest possible audience.

Content that violates the University Guidelines may be amended or removed from the website, so this information acts as an important resource to ensure compliance is met.

University policies

Web Management and Publishing Procedure
This establishes the procedure to be applied when updates are required to content on the Federation University Australia website:

  • The process for approval for changes on the website homepage and main landing pages
  • The process to follow when updating or creating new content for general business areas, and
  • The process for dealing with content that does not meet the standards set by the Web Publishing Standards (docx, 50kb)

Deployment of Custom Applications and Projects on the University's Corporate Webserver Guidelines
Provides information for those considering developing applications and resources for deployment on the University's corporate web server.