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Creating a Faculty/Staff Profile

Faculty/Staff profiles allow WSSU personnel to identify themselves and their roles within the university. These mini-sites are managed within a content management system know as Cascade.

Modifying the University Web Site

The Information Technology Web Support Services (WSS) team and designated content superusers work together and are responsible for creating, editing and maintaining the pages that make up the Winston-Salem State University public-facing web site.

Our Campus Directory

A general overview of how the campus directory works.

Requesting a Friendly/Short/Vanity URL

Whether you call them short URLS, friendly URLs, aliases or redirects they are all ways of renaming long and difficult to read URLs to your pages (that are filled with valuable information that everyone must have and can not live without, but can’t click more than once to get to). Best practice dictates no more than a two to three levels of clicks. Therefore, if your users need to click once or twice you won’t lose them. Not every page needs to have a shortened URL.