Web and digital content

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The Web and Digital Content team is responsible for maintaining Lancaster University's website and other digital platforms. The website is our biggest marketing tool, with over 11 million recorded page views per year from viewers worldwide.

The role of the Web and Digital Content team is to:

  1. Create and curate content - including text, video and images - that is fresh, engaging, accurate and accessible, primarily focusing on student recruitment
  2. Ensure compliance with accessibility and other legislation
  3. Drive the development of the website with new features
  4. Web support and the ongoing training of content management system (CMS) users

Help and advice for content creators (internal only)

  • Using the CMS

    Guides to take you beyond the standard CMS training.

  • Making better webpages

    Non-technical advice and guidance to help you make more effective webpages.

  • Digital pattern library

    A list of all the Foundation content types available for you to use.

  • Image guide

    Detailed guidance on images. This guide covers obtaining images, processing them, uploading to the CMS and placing them on the webpage.

  • Working with course pages

    A guide to working with and improving course pages for all undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

  • Accessibility guide

    A guide on how to create accessible content for the website.

  • Accessibility checklist

    A checklist to help make sure your webpage content meets accessibility regulations.

  • Video guide

    This guide covers videos, adding them to the CMS and placing them on the webpage.

Web support

We can offer various support outside of this guidance. Please visit our support webpage for guidance on who to contact.

Web support
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