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College of Fine Arts Web Instruction

Last Updated June 2025

Welcome to the College of Fine Arts (COFA) Web team instructional site where you can find web-related resources, best practices and solutions. Other colleges, schools and units in the University should go to their web team or https://webpublishing.utexas.edu/ 

The sections of this website

About us – How the Web team works within the university system. You can also find a list of all our websites and the content owners.

Getting Started – Considerations when starting a website and available options and resources for websites on campus.

Requirements – Learn about and how to adhere to policies and legal requirements for campus websites, including how to make your site accessible to all visitors, even those visitors using assistive devices.

Best Practices – Important considerations for every kind of web content to make it the most usable and findable. Including tips for testing and evaluating.

Site Performance – Learn about ways to measure and improve your websites success, including for those visitors on mobile phones.

Site Specific Instructions – Specific instructions for COFA sites on University Blog Services WordPress or UT Drupal Kit Managed and COFA Drupal Kit sites.

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Open Office / Co-Working Sessions

Second Monday of the month:
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Fourth Thursday of the month:
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Email us for the Zoom link.

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Contact Us

The COFA Web team can be reached by emailing us at cofawebmaster@austin.utexas.edu


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