Editing Content on Sites.SMU

There are three basic steps to editing and publishing your website.

  1. Download a local copy of the file you wish to edit onto your computer using the FTPS utility. 
  2. Edit the webpage using your preferred web authoring tool (Dreamweaver, Sharepoint Designer, etc). Save your changes to the file stored on your computer
  3. Upload the revised page to the server using an FTPS utility

Step 1

  1. Launch Cyberduck or FileZilla.  
  2. Locate the file you wish to edit
  3. Double click on the file to download it to your computer.  If you wish to specify the download location, click the arrow next to the action icon and select Download To.

Step 2

  1. Open the file from your computer using your preferred web authoring tool.
  2. Make all changes as needed and Save

Step 3

  1. Launch Cyberduck or FileZilla and connect to your site
  2. Drag and Drop the file you wish to upload or
    1. Click the Upload icon
    2. Navigate to the page(s) you wish to publish
    3. Click Choose (**please note, if you use the Upload feature on the Windows client, the file extensions must be displayed)
    4. Verify that your content published successfully to the server