Our Services, Projects & Portfolio
The OIT Design & Web Services team offers combination of free and contract services to facilitate the creation and management of campus websites. In addition, the Design & Web Services team can assist with presentation design, accessibility solutions, site architecture, and process solutions that works for you and your unit.
Our team has deep knowledge and experience working within the university brand, and we work closely with the university IT Accessibility Coordinator, system administrators, and Security & Compliance team. We can help you build a campus web presence that your unit can be proud of and that represents you and NC State well.
WordPress Blogs
WordPress Blogs is a free WordPress service available to all students, faculty, and staff at NC State University. Common uses include class projects, research group websites, personal portfolios, and study abroad blogs.
All students, faculty, and staff are welcome and encouraged to sign up today and start building their own WordPress websites!
Student Orgs
The Student Orgs web service is managed in cooperation with the Division of Academic and Student Affairs. We provide WordPress websites and commonly-requested tools for officially-recognized student organizations.
Questions about this service should be directed to DASA staff through the Student Involvement website.
Hosted WordPress
Hosted WordPress is a premium WordPress service available to academic and administrative departments, research groups, and other units at NC State. This is a centrally-managed environment designed to support more robust web requirements than are available in the WordPress Blogs service.
Requests for new Hosted WordPress websites must be submitted through Web Registry.
Examples of websites in the Hosted WordPress service include:
Some campus units prefer to host their WordPress websites through OIT’s cPanel web hosting service, either as a consolidated unit-wide multisite or a collection of stand-alone websites. OIT Design & Web Services offers these units ongoing maintenance and support contracts. These maintenance contracts include:
- Configuration of WordPress for security best practices
- Assistance with core, theme, and plugin updates
- Minor theme and plugin customizations
- Consultations on content strategy and management
- Access to tools for forms, calendar displays, restricting content access, campus authentication, and others
- Assistance with updating and optimizing presentation of content for the web
- Assistance with Google Analytics
- Custom training and support for users
Examples of units with ongoing maintenance contracts include:
- Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development
- Division of Academic and Student Affairs
- Arts NC State
- Human Resources
- Office of Finance and Administration
Contact OIT Design at oitdesign@ncsu.edu for more information.
OIT Design & Web Services provides contract-based custom web design and development services to campus units. Design services are provided to clients regardless of where their website is hosted on campus, whether they use our Hosted WordPress service, OIT’s cPanel web hosting service, or another college-level hosting solution.
Depending on your needs, design services may include:
- Custom WordPress theme(s) for your unit or department
- Custom WordPress plugin(s) to add functionality to WordPress that you need
- Consultations on usability, accessibility, and brand compliance
- Consultations on information architecture and content management best-practices
- Content migration from an old website into a new WordPress website
At times, OIT Design also provides:
- Print media design (brochures, flyers, document design)
- Digital signage design
- Presentation design and development
- Custom training
Examples of past design clients include:
- Policies, Regulations & Rules
- Institute for Emerging Issues
- The Nonwovens Institute
- Division of Academic and Student Affairs
- Human Resources
Contact OIT Design at oitdesign@ncsu.edu for more information.
In addition to our campus-facing services, OIT Design & Web Services provides web design, development, and WordPress management services for the Office of Information Technology. On request, we support other teams within OIT with:
- WordPress Services
- Assistance with maintaining your section(s) of oit.ncsu.edu
- Custom WordPress theme(s) for your unit or department
- Custom WordPress plugin(s) to add functionality to WordPress that you need
- Managed WordPress multisite environment for OIT projects
- Content migration from an old website into a new WordPress website
- General Web Services
- Consultations on usability, accessibility, and brand compliance for your website or web app
- Consultations on information architecture and content management best-practices
Teams within OIT interested in working with us should submit a ticket to the OIT_WEBSITE assignment group in ServiceNow, or email oitdesign@ncsu.edu.