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About Us

Last Updated June 2025

The COFA Web team is Sarah Snow, Michael Arbore, Steve Portch and Chris Romani. You can reach us at cofawebmaster@austin.utexas.edu. We’re happy to help and guide anyone associated with the college with Web related questions. Other colleges, schools and units in the University should go to their web team or https://webpublishing.utexas.edu.

We provide technology solutions for building and maintaining websites throughout the College of Fine Arts.

The sites we build have Content Management Systems that allow the content owners throughout the college to update and maintain the websites themselves. We’ve gathered resources to guide anyone responsible for Web content, including:

  • tips for getting started,
  • best practices,
  • policies and legal requirements and
  • how to improving your website performance.

Our involvement continues after we hand over the sites we build to the content owners. We are engaged in keeping the sites secure from predatory vulnerabilities that exist on the Web and making sure the sites comply with legal requirements and university policies. We work with university information technology staff to manage infrastructures, back-ups, maintenance, upgrades, maintain user logins, provide introductory training, support, quality assurance auditing, build new sites, add features, layouts and designs, perform statistical data analysis and more. Finally, we respond to the constant changes in online content delivery and learn to adjust.

Open Office / Co-Working Sessions

We have open office hours on Zoom twice a month:

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

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

Join us at any time to ask web related questions (or just to say ‘hi’). Email us for the Zoom link.

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For periodic tips, web related announcements and resources for generating great Web content sign up at https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/cofa-web.

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


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