Website Lab
Division of Social Sciences
(An Example Lab Website)

If your department is under the Division of Social Sciences, at University of California, Santa Cruz, you can get free help with your website! (Also, this site is a model for how you can build your Lab website.)

What we offer

We’re here to help you:

  • Set up your UCSC website
  • Help with layout and tricky configurations
  • Help you learn how to add stuff to your website
  • And this website is an example of how you can design your Lab/Center/Project website!
GET HELP

Lead by Lauren Owen

Lauren Owen

Lauren has worked extensively in WordPress, Web Development, UX Research & UX Design, Digital Analytics, and Writing.

Lauren Owen’s WEBSITE

Website Lab Projects & Research

Designing based on Data
When you’re building your website, you will likely have a navigation bar with some drop down menus. How should you treat the drop down items differently than the top …
The Center for Integrated Spatial Research (CISR) Website
The Center for Integrated Spatial Research (CISR) website got an updated look and feel when Lauren Owen migrated it over to WordPress. She redesigned the home page to encompass …
HEYLab
Lauren Owen updated the Health Equity in Youth Lab (HEYLab) website to include block editor and a modernized header. More pictures were added, as well as more color. Accessibility …
More Projects

Participate

Ways to get help:

  • Zoom Meetings
  • Classes
  • Taking on some tasks for you
  • Helpful written guides
More about services
2 computers in front of a window full of trees.
People at computers working together

Participate in Research

Help improve UCSC websites, systems and services!

Receive invitations to online activities such as reviewing new websites, offering feedback, or one-on-one, or group discussions.

Anyone at UCSC can join!

more about research participation

Classes

  • Getting started with UCSC websites
  • What is offered
  • Advanced WordPress techniques
  • And more!
more about classes
People at computers working together.

Our Team

A team of people at UCSC with computers.

Learn more about the skilled staff you will be working with.

more about us

News and Events

News

This can be an automatic feed of news posts you add. Email us to set this up for you.

  • Microsoft Word more ADA accessible than Google Docs

    Microsoft Word more ADA accessible than Google Docs

    I recently analyzed how to best meet faculty’s need for documents, and USA laws around ADA accessible web (WCAG compliant). Microsoft Office…

  • Designing based on Data

    Designing based on Data

    When you’re building your website, you will likely have a navigation bar with some drop down menus. How should you treat the…

  • Example News 3

    Example News 3

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Events

This is an automatic feed. Go to Calendar, login with Google, and add events. Make sure you type your group name exactly the same every time under “Hashtag.” Then contact us to make an automatic feed for you, telling us how you wrote that hashtag.

Example of Science & Technology Groups’ events using UCSC calendar:

All Science & Tech Events