Non-CSAIL website hosting options
Besides hosting your content on CSAIL servers, there are plenty of other hosting options available. Two that are particularly popular with CSAIL researchers are GitHub Pages and CampusPress (a/k/a MIT Sites).
GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages is sufficiently popular that we have documentation
specifically about hosting a CSAIL-branded website
(i.e., something.csail.mit.edu) on GitHub
Pages:
(Of course, you don’t have to use a CSAIL domain to host your site on GitHub Pages.)
CampusPress (MIT Sites)
IS&T has contracted with a company called CampusPress to host WordPress websites for the MIT community. (This replaces an earlier Drupal-based offering.) This provides a handful of website templates to choose from and gives you WYSIWYG editing abilities.
TIG doesn’t have our own documentation about this, but you can learn more in IS&T’s documentation and at sites.mit.edu.
- IS&T’s brief landing page about MIT Sites
- The MIT Sites front page at sites.mit.edu, where you can request a new WordPress site.