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The Krieger Web Services Team hosts sites for Krieger School departments, programs, and faculty. Department and program websites are generally hosted on krieger.jhu.edu. All custom websites, if approved, will have a url on the sites.krieger.jhu.edu domain (i.e sites.krieger.jhu.edu/example) and be built in WordPress.

WordPress runs on a managed, shared environment with many themes and plugins pre-installed. Users do not have to purchase any software or hosting. You simply need to manage the website through your browser.

What sites we support

We support the following types of websites:

Academic Departments, Programs, Centers, and Institutes

KSAS Web Services manages websites for entities classified as full-time, on-campus undergraduate and graduate programs (Homewood) under the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences in the Academic Catalog.

We train and work with administrators in each applicable department, program, center, and institute to ensure content accuracy, quality assurance, and familiarity with our WordPress content management system.

If you have a question about your department website or who makes updates in your department, please submit a service request.

Faculty, Faculty Labs, or special department-related student groups

Every Krieger School faculty member has a Profile webpage on their home department website. Each Profile has 15 Personal Details fields, and the url will include the faculty name. Faculty Profile pages also have five detailed areas that appear as tabs (biography, research, teaching, publications, and published books) and two customizable tabs. Edits to a faculty profile webpage can be made through the department’s web editor or, if needed, by our office via web request.  

Custom Faculty/Group Website 

A Krieger School faculty member can also have a personal website if they need more than the aforementioned fields or have a research lab or group with dedicated staffing and graduate students. These faculty or lab sites must meet baseline criteria for the KSAS Communications office to approve and build the site. These criteria include but are not limited to:

  • Explanation of the additional tabs, fields, or pages that would be needed that are not provided by the Profile webpage. 
  • Names of two editors required for the website, including the faculty member, lab staff, or a graduate student 
  • Outline of what kind of updates the site will receive on an annual basis 
  • The succession plan for site management is if a user leaves Johns Hopkins University. 

To find out if your new site is deemed appropriate, include answers to these questions when submitting the New Website Request form. Faculty are welcome to create their own, externally hosted website, or may be able to work with JHU IT to create a site. 

Offices that specifically serve KSAS students, faculty, and/or staff

Websites for offices or entities that specifically serve KSAS students, faculty, and/or staff and are organizationally within the Krieger School are usually managed by the KSAS Web Services team. 

The team will work with administrators to ensure content accuracy and quality assurance. 

Depending on the intended audience and project scope, the office or entity may be encouraged to manage their web presence themselves as a university Sharepoint site, or on the Universal WordPress theme managed by Central Communications and JHU’s Technology Innovation Center (TIC). 

What sites we do not support

  • Offices or entities that may be organizationally housed in KSAS but serve students, faculty, and/or staff for the wider university community beyond the two schools on the Homewood campus. These websites will be managed by the TIC and their universal WordPress theme and setup, or by external vendors.
    • These sites will not be the responsibility of the KSAS Web Services Team. 
  • We do not build websites for events, conferences, or courses.
  • We do not provide support for content that is classified as “restricted” or requires authentication or password-protection.
    • All Web Services’ hosted websites are intended to be publicly available.
    • Users looking for authenticated websites should consider a Sharepoint communications (for disseminating to larger groups) or teams (for small groups) site.
    • Otherwise, users should place sensitive and secure documents on a University IT-approved tool, set appropriate permissions therein, and link to it from the public WordPress site.

Other Policies

  • Your website will have a sites.krieger.jhu.edu/example url.
  • Users cannot add their own plugins or themes due to security, accessibility, and maintenance reasons.
  • Websites that have no or very minimal content added to the skeleton within 60 days of creation date will be removed without notice.
  • Completed websites must contain at least 3 unique pages of content
  • All websites must have a minimum of one, and a maximum of three, editors. Find out more about editing on the Using Your Site page.

Request a Website

To start using WordPress to manage the website for your research center, institute, lab, or faculty profile, simply:

  1. Read through our policies on hosting and costs, domains, and themes
  2. Explore the theme options available to you
  3. Please fill out the new website creation request form. We will review your request and reply within 72 hours.