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UCD WebSmart is the central resource for web development, providing the UCD Community with a range of templates, guidelines and instruction for building a website with UCD's Content Management System.

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Web Accessibility

Learn about Web Accessibility and the tools UCD is using to meet government requirements.

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WebSmart Standards of Practice
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Operating a Website

Learn about our Standards: the four pillars of operating UCD websites.

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Latest News

The side of UCD Health Sciences Centre 25Aug
Website Migration August

UCD School of Medicine Joins the Design Library as Part of the Priority Website 24/25 Project
A screenshot of the new Google Analytics dashboard available on InfoHub 01Jul
New Google Analytics Dashboards Available on InfoHub

Our Google Analytics dashboards on InfoHub have been upgraded. We've rebuilt the dashboards to connect directly to a data warehouse, which means they load much faster and are much more reliable.
NovaUCD Front panorama 10Jun
Website migrations June 2025

CSTAR, ISSDA, Precision Oncology and Nova UCD have migrated to the Design Library.
rainbow facepaint, building by a lake, SBI logo 17Feb
Website Migrations

UCD Graduate Studies, Systems Biology Ireland and UCD Gender Studies have migrated to the Design Library
Illustration of a news feed on a laptop 27Jan
Design Library Winter Release 2024

The latest updates to the Design Library have been released. It includes improvements to how news is managed, enhancements to the document repository, jump menu, better search functionality and more.
Staff profiles with filters enabled 28Jun
Design Library Summer Release 2024

Enhancements to the staff profiles component along with new background colour options for several other components have been added to the Design Library template.
Example of multiple background colour on two column content type 15Feb
Design Library Minor Release February 2024

Some minor updates to the Design Library template have just been released. Along with bug fixes there have been updates to the Two Column Content and Logo Slider components.
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News Archive

Screenshot of Document Repository component 13Dec
Design Library Winter Release '23

New Release: New Document repository component, quick link cards and new layout for the Image Gallery along with enhancement to existing components.
own brand site screenshot 25Aug
Web Team Project Updates

Discover What's New: Our Recent Design Library Website Upgrades, Plus Advances in SEO and Accessibility
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Web accessibility
Web accessibility

Find out how to make your UCD website more accessible for all
typing on keyboard, mouse and watch 29May
PDF Accessibility Guidelines

Guidelines on making accessible PDFs and a video on accessibility training
Screenshot of the new infohub dashboard 14Jun
Google Analytics 4

Our Infohub Web Analytics Report is moving from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4. Discover more about the new Web Analytics Report.
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Silktide Logo 19Jun
Silktide Browser Extension

Test any web page, including private pages, Test unpublished pages in supported CMS , View scores for pages as you browse them and
Instantly jump into Silktide results for any page