Web Portfolio
Technology Services' team of Web Developers/Designers serve the University Unions and the General Fund Units at the University of Michigan. We combine personal interaction and substantial planning to provide quality site architecture, skillful coding and exceptional design balanced with branding, audience and content requirements. Our custom sites are updated and built with consideration of accessibility and usability for people with varying degrees of ability.
UM*Events
Built from scratch, the new UM Events site offers many new features and enhancements aimed at providing a better user experience. In addition to new browsing and searching tools, users can tailor their lists with event favorites and exclusions that are remembered between logins. Integrating into other calendars and web sites with our new RSS and JSON feeds is easy and robust – customize any list of events using the new browsing tools, then get the feed version in one more step. To achieve all of this, we've redeveloped the entire system using the YII Framework, creating a more modular, scalable and accessible system to facilitate both current and future needs. For more information, please visit the UM Events about page.
Carepackage
Carepackage is a web based e-commerce interface to a university gifting service. The custom modules were built with portability in mind and can be reused to enhance any Drupal/Ubercart e-commerce solution. Delivery scheduling, cosign/non-cosign user accounts, and customizable advertisement modules each create a lively yet low footprint web 2.0 site that's mindful of accessibility standards and leverages the University's chosen off-site credit card payment service, Nelnet.
Maize Pages
There's more to Maize Pages than meets the eye! Content on the site is completely populated with the results of integrated online application processes built in Coldfusion and utilizes file uploads and a Verity search collection.
University Unions
The University Unions' website serves as a central gateway to information about the three student unions. The site offers seamless top navigation to the individual student union sites, which were created to echo the layout of the University Unions site, yet maintain their own distinct "personalities".
Student Orgs
Student Orgs is the central home for student organizations at the University of Michigan. With over 1,200 recognized student organizations and thousands of University departments and programs, student leaders need to have a lot of information at their fingertips. StudentOrgs.umich.edu was created by Office of Student Activities and Leadership (SAL) and is maintained by SAL and Student Organization Accounts Service (SOAS) to make the necessary information accessible and easy to understand for student organizations.
Student Legal Services
The Student Legal Services website provides comprehensive information to students about the services the department offers. It also offers valuable legal information for a variety of issues students may face during their time on campus, ranging from housing to crimal resources.
Greek Life at U-M
The Office of Greek life was looking to expand the scope of their website and present it in a more user friendly and attractive way. Their new site features a clean new look and organization, giving prominence to the four Greek councils. Information about each Chapter is pulled from a database to ensure it is accuate and easy to maintain.
Campus Information Centers
Campus Information Centers is the place to go for INFO. The site covers a wide range of topics and is efficiently organized to help answer all questions related to the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor. To aid visitors in finding their way, Direction Finder seamlessly ties into Google maps.
Academic Support Services
The Academic Support Services website was designed to help students find a variety of services on campus to help them succeed academically. Tutors, advising and tools for writing papers are only a few examples of the wide range of services available. It was designed like a wiki, allowing viewers across campus the ability to suggest resources and edits to keep the site as accurate as possible.
University Catering
The University Catering website is the source for all catering and banquet needs at any of the Union locations (Michigan League, Michigan Union, Pierpont Commons) and serves the surrounding Ann Arbor area. The menus are dynamically populated and content is kept fresh with an online system that allows staff to enter menu changes as they occur.
Expect Respect
The Expect Respect site features an interactive home page that allows students to share their perspectives on campus issues involving respect. The website also conveys information about the Expect Respect Campaign including how to report incidents.
Growing Allies
The Growing Allies website demystifies Allyhood, promotes their Fall retreat, and encourages students to get involved. Like many of the other sites built by Technology Services, the Growing Allies website was built in Drupal, a content management system that allows staff to update content as often as needed without having to know html.
Michigan Union Ticket Office
The Michigan Union Ticket Office site was designed to help convey the excitement and energy of a live show. MUTO's events calendar is imported from UM*Events allowing the information to be quickly and easily updated, and more widely promoted. A Twitter feed keeps the visitors up-to-date with MUTO's news tweets.
Food Service Planning
This site provides a structured process, tools, and resources to assist General Fund academic and administrative units and units within the Division of Student Affairs in proposing and planning food operations for the Ann Arbor campus.