Creating and updating content on Infodome

This page is a quick reference for content developers. More detailed instructions are here.

Web content production services:

  • New pages can be sent to Ellie (she will designate a backup when she is out of the office for a significant period of time).
  • She will have the page created or changes made.
  • Usually small changes are made within a day and new content creation takes less than a week under most circumstances.

If you prefer to build your own Web content, here are the basics.

Getting started

  1. If you are new to creating Infodome content, contact Ellie for a quick training session.
  2. Before your training session, contact IST to ask for the appropriate software (Dreamweaver or Contribute) be installed on your computer.
  3. If you are unsure of which to select, discuss this with Ellie when you contact her.

Creating new content:

  1. Talk to Ellie (or her backup) about where to put the page and what to call it.
  2. Download a template and use Dreamweaver or Contribute to edit it.
    The available templates are:

  3. Change the name field in the template and the department field if necessary (you will know if it is).
  4. Build the content between the <body> tags.
  5. Use Win-FTP or the Dreamweaver FTP feature to upload your page to Dometest.
  6. Check your page on Dometest to be sure it looks right and all links are working.
  7. Email Ellie (or her backup) to have your page uploaded from Dometest to Infodome.

Updating existing content:
Using Dreamweaver

  1. Use either Win-FTP or the Dreamweaver FTP function to download your page from Dometest
  2. Edit your page
  3. Embed a date- and person-specific string of characters in a comment field at the start of your HTML code. Usually this is your initials and the date in one single string, which will look something like:
    <!– ed060806 –>
  4. Save your page and use FTP to upload it to Dometest.
  5. Check your page on Dometest to be sure it looks right and all links are working.
  6. Use Selectfiles to upload your page to Infodome.

Using Contribute

  1. Browse to the page on Dometest that you wish to edit and click the ‘Edit Page’ button
  3. Edit your page
  4. Click on the ‘Format’ menu and select ‘Keywords and Description’
  5. Use the Keywords field to embed a date- and person-specific string of characters. Usually this is your initials and the date in one single string, which will look something like: ed060806.
  6. Click the ‘Publish’ button.
  7. Check your page on Dometest to be sure it looks right and all links are working.
  8. Use Selectfiles to upload your page to Infodome.

Important notes

  • All pages should be saved as .shtml so that the templates work.
  • URLs to pages on Infodome should start from the Website root. For example, a link to:
    http://infodome.sdsu.edu/about/depts/ill/ill.shtml
    would use this URL :
    /about/depts/ill/ill.shtml.