Website Publishing and Hosting

IT and Communications are actively working on our full web redesign and moving towards a single main site for all of Harvard Chan School. Our new single website will have a more modern design and enhanced features that will help us to highlight the work of our students, faculty, researchers, and staff across the School.

Learn more about the project:

Key features and benefits

easy-to-use and industry-standard, open source, web publishing tool
deliver content easily and beautifully to the web
Harvard Chan approved logos and branding
mobile-first design allowing optimized viewing on a phone, tablet, or computer
optimized for speed (image loading time and page responsiveness) as well as search engine optimization
all monitoring and system updates done centrally by Harvard Chan IT

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Service cost

Core Service - Provided at no cost

Websites hosted on our platform using standard features are free.

Premium service - With associated cost

A handful of sites that need a lot of custom functionality or design and have funding may be invited to become “compliant self-hosted” sites. “Compliant” in this case means following Harvard University rules around branding, hosting, accessibility, security, and domain registration.

Groups that develop self-hosted sites must:

Enter into a maintenance agreement with a web vendor, and comply with Harvard’s hosting, security, and accessibility policies.
Receive approval for any custom domains from Trademark, the Office of Communications, and IT.
Work with IT to transfer site hosting to Harvard’s preferred host, Pantheon.
Pay for their own design, development, and maintenance costs.