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Requesting a Student Interest Group Website

We are here to help you to establish a presence for your group, organization or association in the David Geffen School of Medicine. If you would like to have a website for your group, please take a moment to read this page in its entirety.

The steps for requesting and publishing a website.

  1. Review the following pages
  2. Download and complete the Website Request Form, either as a pdf or create a word document with all information included
  3. Email Mary Ann Triest your completed form
  4. Upon review and approval of your proposed site, a staging site will be created using the information you provided
  5. Your designated web content administrator will work with us to complete your site.
  6. Once completed, your site will be pushed to a production site, all editing will be completed on this site and by your web content administrator.

Things to consider before requesting a website

  • Do you have a general idea of the layout of your website?
    • What pages will be linked on your navigation bar?
    • Are you going to a have a contact us page, news package, events package?
    • What are you going to let people know about (registration, events, important news, sign ups)?
    • How often do you think you can update the site?
  • Do you have existing content?
    • Do you have a backlog of photos?
    • Do you have a logo?
    • Does your organization have an existing social media presence?
  • Are you or someone in your organization familiar with the concepts of html, css and javascript?
    • Are you or someone in your organization willing to learn the basics?

We will help you get a firm understanding of the basics for website development and hope that you will find our guides and resources helpful, however, we understand that you already have many responsibilities and commitments within the school. We are available to help you put a site together; however, it starts with having a clear expectation of what your site will be. With clear guidelines we can quickly take your concept to a reality.