WEB AND VIDEO SERVICES
Website Resources
Our Web service supports the College of Education & Human Development’s Web presence. Our sites are part of Georgia State University’s collection of websites. The content management system we use is WordPress.
Our websites are virtual portals to the College and our programs for an external audience. The function of our sites is to attract prospective students — both undergraduate and graduate.
We follow University guidelines for branding, logo use, colors and themes. And we use AP style for content.
Web accessibility is important to maintain so that people with disabilities who use the Web will enjoy ease of use. While the university has made our WordPress websites accessible, we need to be mindful of the multimedia and documents we upload to our sites.
We will offer training on occasion.
Resources, Tutorials and Videos
- CETL’s accessibility assistance
- Table Regularity — how to make a correction during a PDF accessibility check when it says, table regularity
- Other elements alternate text failed — How to make a correction during a PDF accessibility check when it says, Other elements alternate text
- How to tag a PDF for accessibility
- Making tables more accessible
- Section 508 CoP: Remediating Word Documents – Part One
- Section 508 CoP: Remediating Word Documents – Part Two
- Section 508 CoP: PDF Accessibility – Part One
- Section 508 CoP: PDF Accessibility – Part Two
Official 508 Compliance Websites
To log tickets you can visit:
https://mycehd.gsu.edu/web-support/ or https://gsu.uservoice.com/ – there is also a knowledge base for you to use to search for answers to issues.
To send a ticket for PROGRAM PAGES ONLY you can use this form.
If you have issues with your Web pages for your department that are not program pages use the code for the drop-down WHAT CAN WE HELP YOU WITH – UNIT – CEHD no matter what your issue is.
Web Stories
- News story form – submit your news (goes into draft/pending mode to be edited)
- Student Q&A form also for Our Voices
- CEHD News and Accolades form
- Alumni Accolades Form – capture where your alumni are now
If you need a video produced for your program, event, etc. please fill out the Video Request Form to describe what you need.
Web Updates
- If you have updates or edits for your websites send them to your Web content manager, if you have one (some departments do) or to [email protected].
- If you have updates or edits for your program pages send them to [email protected].
- Allow up to 3-5 business days for a response.
- If you have updates to your directory profile (new publications, new photo, new CV, etc.) please email [email protected] or [email protected]. Do not fill out the profile form again as it will create duplicates.
Web Helpers
Web content editors (WCMs) in our departments help the college’s Web coordinator keep up with their department web pages. Others from centers, labs, clinics, etc. also aid in this process. If you are working with any of the above before you can have access to your pages, you need to go through training first. Contact [email protected] to set this up.
Hillary Meister is the Web coordinator for the college. She began with CEHD in July 2013. In 2017, she won the Staff Innovators award and in 2018, completed a nearly yearlong Staff Innovators Program facilitated by Georgia State University.
Previous to her work with CEHD, she spent time with Georgia Gwinnett College as an online Web content producer and social media manager.
She began her career as a film editor, camera person and grip for an ABC affiliate television station in Orlando. Before entering the world of higher education, she spent her career working for multimedia and newspaper companies. She covered on-the-street activities for the 1996 Summer Olympics for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Cox Interactive Media and then moved to Sausalito, California to work for an online community company to cover the 2000 Summer Olympics, E-Trade community and Robin Williams’ Audible interview series.
She graduated from the University of Central Florida in Orlando with a bachelor’s in film/radio/TV and from the University of Georgia with a master of education in English education. She also studied photography at the Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Fla.
Outside of work, she spends time with her dog Willow and volunteers with Great Pyrenees Rescue Atlanta (GPRA), Happy Tails Pet Therapy and Funds 4 Furry Friends. She helps with their Web presence, social media, fund-raising and other activities. Her dog, Hamlet, was a trained emotional support and therapy dog for Happy Tails Pet Therapy. He is missed. Her current dog, Willow, is a foster from GPRA and time will tell if she can be trained to do therapy work…
The following people of the college help with content creation, the direction of content or as liaisons between their department and Web services.
- CPS: Jessica Knowles
- CSD: Anne-Marie Pope
- ECEE: Zaki Hyder and Margaret Lisi
- EPS: Aishah Cowan
- KH: Dwayne Turner
- LS: Sandy Vaughn
- MSE: pending
Some of our departments hire GRAs to help with Web upkeep and content creation, others have one of their administrators handle it and others utilize their faculty. However you do it, your person will need training on how to maintain, update and create new content for your website. You can arrange training with [email protected]. Chris Ross at Georgia State’s digital office also holds regular training on Teams.