What is an Arizona Site?
Arizona Sites are always on-brand, mobile responsive, and customizable.
They are fully-developed Drupal sites managed by Campus Web Services. Creating a UA branded, mobile responsive site for your unit or department is quick and easy. You just need to add the content, videos and imagery and your site is ready to go live!
Arizona Sites Include
Continuous Delivery of Quickstart
Arizona Digital is releasing improvements to Quickstart all the time. Arizona Sites stay current with regularly scheduled updates.
High-Performance Hosting
Every site has its own container on Pantheon's infrastructure. Take advantage of unrivaled speed and uptime.
Automated Maintenance
Arizona Sites are optimized for scalability. Since they all have the same codebase, our robots can keep them up-to-date without breaking anything.
Support Team
You have full access to manage all of your own content, but if you need any help there is a dedicated team standing by.
Frequently Asked Questions
Arizona Sites are available to University of Arizona colleges, departments, units, centers, institutes, and large initiatives or projects. Website owners must be current UA faculty or staff.
Arizona Sites are not intended for personal faculty websites or faculty lab/project sites — those should use Arizona Faculty Sites instead.
All new Arizona Sites must be approved by the unit's Designated Marketing Leads. Domain requests are reviewed through the Brand Equity Review Board, which coordinates with Marketing Leads throughout the process.
To get started, submit a domain/website request for approval.
Website logos must be created by the Brand team — see logo guidelines for details.
Arizona Sites are designed so that anyone with a UA NetID can create and edit content and manage users. Hosting is provided through Pantheon, an enterprise web host, under contract with Campus Web Services, which handles all security updates and feature improvements.
Support is available from Campus Web Services via live Zoom trainings, ServiceNow, and one-on-one consultations.
To keep an Arizona Site active, the following must be met annually:
- Annual confirmation that the website is still required, and review of the appropriate contacts
- Compliance with the University of Arizona Domain Name Guidelines
- Website content must be reviewed and updated at least annually
- Website must average more than 200 monthly users as measured by the University of Arizona comprehensive analytics account
Arizona Sites are free for all eligible units — hosting is subsidized by UITS.
Custom development work may carry an upfront cost, along with ongoing maintenance fees.
| Standard | Custom | |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible Pages | check | check |
| Directory Pages | check | check |
| Event Pages and Views | check | check |
| News Pages and Views | check | check |
| Accessible | check | check |
| Arizona Branded | check | check |
| Mobile Responsive | check | check |
| Google Analytics Integration | check | check |
| Search Engine Optimization | check | check |
| Custom Content Types and Views * | close | check* |
| Modify Existing Content Types or Views | close | check* |
| Enabling Available Modules | check | check |
| Installing Additional Modules | close | check |
| Support from Campus Web Services | check | check |
* Custom/modified content types and views will require a design fee to get set up and depending on the extent of the customizations, may require additional maintenance fees.
Arizona Sites Support
Getting Started
Ready to dive in? Request a site and the Campus Web Services Team will reach out to get you set up.