Create your own website
What options do you have if you want to build a webpage or website?
Websites and digital experience
If you are looking to create your own website or improve and existing one, you'll find instructions to different topics here from search engine optimization to sustainability guidelines for web pages.
Aalto.fi main website
Communications team in collaboration with IT services maintain, develop and oversee the continuous development of our main website for both internal and external audiences. The website is the intranet for personnel and students, and the outward facing public site for the general public.
Drupal: Aalto.fi website
All supported options for creating websites within Aalto
If you want to create a web page or an entire site, but don't know where to start, you find instructions and guidance in the following pages. The page lists all the options Aalto offers from simple ready web page templates to complex spin-off sites.
If you need your own URL, a ready-made blog platform for writing about your work, or help and support for creating a custom web page from Aalto Studios experienced people, see the links below.
Design system helps you create accessible and Aalto-like user interfaces
If you are creating a website yourself from scratch, designing user interfaces or want help in improving the user experience of your service, get to know the design system contact the design system team.
Want to improve your current web pages?
Find instructions for learning about your page visitors
Web analytics and aalto.fi visitor tracking
Communications Services monitor the visitor traffic on the Aalto web services with Google Analytics. Aalto University's general Google Analytics account is linked with the www.aalto.fi site and automatically includes all the content on www.aalto.fi.
Make pages findable in searches with SEO
Boost your webpages with search engine optimisation (SEO). Read on!
Sustainability in the web
Aalto is committed to inclusive and accessible digital services, which is important for any web pages created within Aalto University. Aalto.fi as a platform does a lot for you, but editors do have a very important role in keeping the content accessible. Read more on the pages below.
Digital Accessibility
This site provides tools, instructions, and links to promote digital accessibility. The aim of the site is to raise awareness of inclusion and equality and to support a cultural change in publishing across all Aalto units: digital accessibility should be integrated into everyday work.
Sustainability in digital channels
This page introduces social and environmental sustainability in digital channels and collects together the sustainability principles of content and digital service creation within Aalto.
Environmental sustainability guidelines for digital channels
The environmental sustainability guidelines for creating content and designs help to provide tools and knowledge needed to create a more eco-friendly digital Aalto.
Social sustainability guidelines for digital channels
The social sustainability guidelines for creating content and designs help to provide tools and knowledge needed to create a more diverse and inclusive digital Aalto.