Website Development

The Office of University Communications maintains the content of the Mount website (www.msmary.edu). Because the website is considered a “publication” the standard publications policy also applies to the website.

The website was redesigned in 2006 to address an external audience of prospective students and their parents, alumni, friends. Its primary goal is to market the university to outside audiences. Some content on the site is database-driven (news areas, calendars, etc.) and can be updated instantly. The remainder of the content is “static,” and is designed to be updated as schedules permit. Determining changes to the website is an institutional prerogative, and you must obtain permission from your supervisor and/or divisional vice president to request additional pages or major changes to the website. Please do this before contacting the communications office with website requests.

For security reasons, very few users have administrative rights to the website. Unless you have been granted administrative rights (from the Office of University Communications or from the appropriate department head or divisional vice president), all changes, updates, deletions, etc., must be made through our office.

We process requests in the order in which we receive them, as well as by institutional priority. While we will do everything we can to accommodate both your deadline and your creative ideas, please keep in mind that we must also try to maintain consistency and integrity across the site, so some requests might have to be reviewed with other offices before we can process them.