News
April 14 — Escher Migration: The www.uottawa.ca domain now routes through a reverse proxy and connecting via FTP or SSH to www.uottawa.ca no longer works. If you have a site on Escher, change your FTP, SSH connection settings to connect to escher.uottawa.ca ›
March 5 — The University's Global Navigation Banner has been updated. Make sure your site includes the latest banner ›
Services offered by CCS (that's us)
Hosting & Templates
Unix and Windows hosting — We offer free hosting to faculties, services, professors, graduate students and accredited student associations. Our servers have daily backups, 24/7 monitoring, databases, all that good stuff.
uOttawa Web Templates — The University's templates allow you to code your site using PHP, ASP, ASP.NET and are optimized for Adobe Contribute using Dreamweaver Templates. You can also adapt them to use with other Content Management Systems.
uOttawa fonts — Request a copy of the Myriad Pro fonts, which you'll need to design your site according to the templates.
Search
Add search to your site, powered by Google Search Appliance.
Keep an eye on your site
Analytics Tool — Google Analytics is available to allow you to analyse your site's traffic, see where your visitors are going and how they're finding your site. Details »
Broken links and spell checking — WebXM monitors your site for broken links, spelling mistakes and other site quality problems. WebXM reports »
Accessibility Report — LIFT Machine analyses your site for accessibility problems that will make your site difficult to use by visually impaired visitors or people with mobility problems. It will signal you on issues like missing alt attributes and barriers found in your forms and tables. LIFT Machine reports »
Widgets & tools
Calendar of Events — Include a listing of upcoming events on your site and publicize your events to the rest of the University community.
Quick Poll Tool — Displays a poll on your site
Online Survey Tool — We can host and help you create online surveys with the tool called Voxco.
Image Bank — Get high-resolution images from the campus and students
Promote your site
InfoKiosks — To help promote your site, you can request a link on the kiosk workstations found across campus.