Web Design/Brightspot
Starting in 2018, BYU partnered with a company called Brightspot to create uniform, easy-to-manage websites for its departments. You can learn more about the state of this initiative at https://sites.byu.edu/; simply put, Brightspot is the web platform BYU encourages its departments to use for most purposes.
Brightspot isn't a drag-and-drop web editor, like Squarespace or Wix. Instead, it's a CMS - a Content Management System. A CMS, like Drupal or Wordpress, will do what the name says: manage content. Brightspot is designed with sites like https://news.byu.edu/ and https://chemicalengineering.byu.edu/ in mind - sites with an emphasis on articles, lists, directories, that sort of thing. Knowing that, it's important to understand how Brightspot structures the information you give it.
You can think of Brightspot in geographical terms:
| Brightspot | The country |
| Site | The city |
| Home | City hall |
| Section | Neighborhood |
| Page | Street |
| Module | House |
| Content (text, images, charts, etc) | People living in that house |
Our Sites
The Training and Communications team (you and Brian, for now...?) has varying levels of responsibility for a number of sites in Brightspot:
| https://infosec.byu.edu | BYU IT Information Security and Privacy | The home for all things related to cybersecurity at BYU (minus the major). Currently hosts training modules, awareness articles, posters and videos, the BYU Phish Bowl, and |
| https://ces.prod.brigham-young.psdops.com/ | CES Technology | Top-level site for all things related to CES Technology initiatives. Currently contains only links to the 4 "centers", but will soon also include items such as Mission Critical Systems. |
| https://ces.prod.brigham-young.psdops.com/soc/ | CES Security Operations Center | Contains the IT-focused elements from infosec.byu.edu, as well as higher-level planning and service-related information about the SOC. |
| https://ces.prod.brigham-young.psdops.com/infosec/ | CES Information Security | Soon to replace infosec.byu.edu as the central site for all things cybersecurity at all CES institutions (minus the major, lol). Target audience is students, faculty, some administrators, and community members. |
| https://tpc.byu.edu/ | CES Technology Planning Center | |
| https://cia.byu.edu/ | CES IT Architecture | |
| https://ces.prod.brigham-young.psdops.com/cnc/ | CES Network Center | |
| https://oit.byuh.edu/ | BYU Hawaii Office of Information Technology | We only maintain their Phish Bowl. We were trying to get them to take some articles from infosec.byu.edu, but that's taking a while, so we're putting our efforts into pushing the CES Information Security site instead. |