Basic Rules of adding people to your website

Almost all departmental websites have a People section that profiles Faculty and Staff, and occasionally Graduate Students, Visiting Faculty, Etc.

People sections on a departmental website are predetermined at the redesign stage by the Chair, and other key staff within a department - once the redesign process starts we will add not only those particular sections (Faculty, Staff, etc) but also corresponding fields within each person's page that lays out their role at UCLA - everything from their position, to their office number, to their academic interests. Again, these fields, that are for the most part optional, are predetermined at the redesign process, and can be altered with a simple request to the web operations team.

If at all possible, each person who appears in the People section of the departmental website should have:

1. Full name
2. Position or title
3. A photograph
4. Contact information

Past the above four fields, it is up to the department, and the person responsible for creating and editing each profile, on what appears on each person's page - typically, in the past, a department will provide an email form to each person who will appear on the website and have them fill out the fields as best as possible. In addition to basic information, a person appearing on the site can also have their CV and website linked to.

While the process of adding people, and their information, can be a daunting task, it is important that great attention is paid to the details in order to ensure a person's information is presented correctly. 

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