Instantiated in 2004, the UKIT Site Lab is a small organization dedicated primarily to developing web pages, applications, sites, and related services. Our primary focus is on the UK 'home page' and related sites developed in co-operation with UKPR.
How We Work
Our primary focus is building and maintaining the UK 'home' page and related sites in cooperation with UKPR, maintaing the servers needed to deploy those sites and others hosted on www.uky.edu, and to build and maintain the UKIT site.
With any spare time or resources we develop and maintain other sites ranging from the campus Purchasing Portal to the Emergency Management site. We typically build and/or maintain sites for smaller groups on campus who are not able to manage or 'purchase' a web presence in any other fashion. Please visit our Portfolio to see the type and varitey of sites we have built over the years.
If you feel that the Site Lab could help you with a site, feel free to email us. Depending on the nature of your needs and our workload, we may or may not be able to assist you. Although we are not a 'recharge' based department, there may be expenses incurred with any project to cover software or hardware costs, student wages, training, etc.
Please also keep in mind that the Site Lab is usually quite heavily scheduled, and often have projects lined up for months at a time, so contact us as early as possible when considering site development.
2008 SGA Election
Site Lab started the SGA online election in 2007. Due to short notice last year, John Soward coded the election in one night! This year, the SGA is much more prepared. So, what's new with the SGA election this year? Given a better work timeframe, we developed better election software using Dojo, the JavaScript toolkit.
Student Employment
Site Lab provides a wide range of educational experiences for students including web and application programming, web design, photography, and many others. Send us your resume!
John Soward presents at MacWorld 2008
John Soward and Wayne Beech of UK's Academic Technology group presented a hands on session on traditional unix text utilties for systems administration at this year's MacWorld Conference and Expo. In 2007 Wayne and John also presented at MacWorld detailing UK's XGrid efforts.