There are various ways you can edit the content of an existing website of an organization or department. Two tools that are in use at Southwestern are NVU and Dreamweaver. NVU is an open-source application that runs on both Macs and PCs and can be downloaded from http://nvudev.com/download.php Dreamweaver is a commercial product from Adobe the runs on both Macs and PCs and the educational price is around $190 at the time of this posting.
In the world of web site creation, the term “publish” is used when you want the world to be able to view your website from a brower. When you are working on your website files, changing the content and saving your work does not necessarily mean that the changes are “on your site”. Most web site design and creation software, such as NVU and Dreamweaver, publish your web site content using a protocol called ftp and need to know the location where to publish the files. ITS has created two documents to help you setup NVU and Dreamweaver to use ftp to publish your web site files.