Web services

ITECS provides web services free of charge to the College of Engineering. ITECS develops the college's main site at www.engr.ncsu.edu and the site for engineering computing, www.eos.ncsu.edu. ITECS also provides web lockers and technologies to support other college domains (see column at right) and the many web sites and pages they encompass, including student organization sites.

Special college templates, created in Adobe Dreamweaver, are available for use and adaptation. PHP is the supported scripting language, with a test server available for staging sites and testing scripts before live delivery. Google's University Search is the recommended search engine, and site statistics (through AWStats) are available to all web sites. Access control of the web locker and quota is handled through a locker portal web tool.

The college web infrastructure is designed to scale to a large number of users and employ cost-effective technologies, such as those from the open-source community. The web services built on this infrastructure extend and add to NCSU web resources; it does not duplicate them.