All of these interfaces will produce a website with text and images. Use this chart to find the best interface for supporting your datasets. Click here for an accessible PDF version.
Web Design
Design and Publish a Website
Websites are an effective way to showcase your work, visual style, and demonstrate high-level digital skills. Use a website to:
- Advertise your research project and provide proof of concept. Create a landing page explaining the project’s goals, and include sections for your bibliography, staff, and milestones.
- Share your employment materials in a well-designed website that showcases your skills. Post your CV, writing samples, teaching documents, etc. Share your CV, teaching documents, and research projects.
- Disseminate your research to a broader audience. Publish articles in peer-reviewed journals, but also write a public-facing version on a website that isn’t blocked by a paywall.
Match your Media with an Interface
| Desired Function/Capability | Recommended Platform | Additional Options |
| Maps | StoryMaps |
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| Specialized image tools (e.g. image carrols, sliding images, etc.) | StoryMaps |
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| Interactive/dynamic interface | StoryMaps | |
| Timeline | Create a TimelineJS project and embed the code into WordPress/other free platform | StoryMaps timeline feature or create a TimelineJS and use StoryMaps' embed feature. |
| Embedded form to collect information from users | Google Sites | Create a shareable survey and link it using any of the options in this chart. |
| Share drafts/versions of writing or code | GitHub | |
| Retain editing privileges post-Brandeis career |
WordPress |
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This is not an exhaustive list of options, and is limited to what Brandeis staff and faculty typically support.
Full Comparison of Interfaces
Click here for an accessible PDF version of the table below.
| Overview | Cost | Skill Level |
Multi- User |
Viewing | Learn | |
| WordPress, Google Sites, Wix |
Text, images, embedded content (forms, Google maps, Youtube, Timeline JS etc.) | Open Access + Free | Easy | Yes | Share unpublished site with certain users | Step-by-step Google sites tutorial |
| Git Version Control | Preserves versions of your “digital notebook” | Open Access + Free | Some training needed | Yes | Public and private options | Git version control tutorial |
| StoryMaps | Text, images, videos, and maps with optional interactive features for readers. The StoryMaps mapping interface is limited to basic vector features, but users can upload complex analytical maps they created in ArcGIS Online. | Free for Brandeis users. There is a free version for non-Brandeis accounts and you can transfer Brandeis-made content to a non-Brandeis account but may lose some functionality. | Easy | Yes | Private, Campus, Group, Public. | Step-by-Step StoryMaps tutorial |
| Juncture | Text and embedded features (videos, images, Google maps). Use HTML or Markdown to write your narrative. | Open Access | There are no templates or uploading tools. Requires Markdown or HTML for customizing the layout and embedding features. The documentation does walk you through the correct commands. | Yes | Private until publish. | How-to documentation written by Juncture staff |