Spread Your Message with CIT's Electronic Publishing Service

Do you need an easy way to broadcast your message to the world? Are you looking for affordable ways to communicate with your audience beyond email and listserv lists? CIT is pleased to announce the availability of a new electronic publishing service, which is part of our new zLinux service offering (see also the "CIT Adds zLinux Virtual Server Hosting Service" article in Interface 247).

Easy online publishing

Our electronic publishing service, which uses WordPress blogging software, makes reaching a wide audience easy and economical. With the service, you can:

• Write your own website, without knowing HTML.


• Edit your website using a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editor that is as easy as Microsoft Word.


• Easily add images and videos to your website.


• Write your own blogs and newsletters on the Web.

In essence, our service streamlines online publishing for you, offering a low price tag, ease-of-use, and fast set-up for your blog or newsletter. With CIT's WordPress-based publishing service to power your blog, you don't have to worry about keeping up with the fast pace of advancing technology because we will do it for you.

Service features

Our electronic publishing service offers customers space for individual sites on a multiuser host and uses WordPress, a widely used blog and content management system that offers flexibility and ease-of-use, to publish your content.

The service includes the following features and options:

• CIT Support: CIT configures the site based on user specifications and provides 24/7 support and routine backups.


• Customer-controlled Site Access: The site owner can define who should have access to the site to read and edit content. Access to the site can be restricted to computers within the NIH perimeter firewall or expanded to allow access from computers on the Internet, as decided by the site owner.


• NIH Login Accounts: If the site owner wishes to restrict access, site login uses NIH Login accounts, so you do not have to remember new accounts and passwords.


• Customer-controlled Content Management: The site owner has administrative-level privileges to lock content from editing, delete content, and otherwise manage the site and its content.


• Easy Editing: A WYSIWYG editor is included, making editing similar to using Word. This means that you don't need to worry about knowing web coding, because the WordPress blogging software does the code part for you. You can create, modify, retrieve, and update your content without ever having to touch the code required to perform those tasks.

For the most current service rates, please see the "zLinux Services" section of the NIH Data Center Rates page.

Questions

If you are interested in using CIT's electronic publishing service or if you have any questions about electronic publishing or content management systems, please contact the NIH IT Service Desk at http://itservicedesk.nih.gov/support or call 301-496-4357, 301-496-8294 (TTY) or toll free at 866-319-4357.

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