How do I update a page on the department website?

For those of you who oversee portions of the official department website and need to make changes, the best work flow that we have at the moment is as follows:

• Go to the page you need to update. For example: http://www.math.unl.edu/people/faculty/
• Add to the end of the url: index.html
• This will now give you the "core" of the page, the portion that is displayed in the main content area
• In your browser, go to File then Save As
  • Leave the File name and Encoding choices the same, but in the Save as type drop-down box, choose "Webpage, HTML only (*.htm;*.html)" and select Save
• Find the file you saved and right-click on it. Select Open With and the Word Pad choice from the list.
• Edit the file that you saved in Word Pad. Do not use Word to edit this file (see below)
• Create a ticket and tell us which url needs updating. Attach the modified html file to the ticket.
• We'll get the page updated as soon as we can.

Please note there are some "special" pages that are not updated this way, such as the jobs listing, the schedule of classes. If you have an update for one of these pages, please just generate a ticket about the update.

Why can't I use Word?

Every official department page must meet Section 508 guidelines and other code validity checks. Word cannot reliably produce such code.

Please note: personal pages do not need to meet these guidelines.