Our ServicesSupport for Web publishing at Santa Clara University is provided by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Information Services, the Webmaster and Web Applications Developer in the Media Services department, and system and network administrators in the Information Technology department. 
Web Publishing NewsCommonspot authoring and replication this weekend The SCU Web site and Commonspot CMS will experience some downtime on Friday, 5/17 and Saturday 5/18, due to the SAN upgrade schedule. We expect the downtime to take place sometime between 7pm Friday and 5am Saturday, with the duration anticipated to be about four hours. Read More »
Title Image Creation ToolA new tool is available to assist in the creation of title images for templates for users who don't have Adobe Photoshop or prefer not to use it. The Title Image Creator (commonspot login required) is a web interface in which you can choose a color scheme and enter the desired text, and the title image will be created for you. Right click on the resulting image and save it to your computer, then upload it to the image gallery for use in the template. For more instructions on template creation, click here Read More »Content Layout Options The base template in Commonspot includes a Layout element in the center column, with one cell for page content. The initial layout of content within the center column can be changed by adding rows, columns, and modifying the individual cell properties. Read More »
Commonspot authoring server status A Commonspot patch was scheduled to be applied earlier this morning, and the application of the patch caused the authoring server to block Commonspot login attempts, and produce numerous display errors. Read More »
Google Maps Directions to Campus A new element is available in Commonspot that will allow visitors to get directions to campus using Google Maps. Read More »
Google Custom Search The SCU Web site search has been updated to include Google's Custom Search system. We had previously used Google's Public Search system for the SCU site search, which provided access to Google's index of all publicly-accessible servers in the scu.edu domain. The new Custom Search system allows us to include SCU-related content on external hosts, such as the Santa Clara Broncos and Campus Bookstore Web sites. Read More »
Database Server Maintenance Maintenance is planned for one of the database servers that is used to supply content for the www.scu.edu Web site, on Thursday morning, 4/19 from 5 to 7 am. Read More »
CFMX 7 Update The ColdfusionMX application server software on the cms and www servers has been updated to the current release, 7.0.2. This update includes a number of security enhancements and bug fixes, and is certified for use with the current Java version running on these systems. Read More »
Commonspot Editor and HTML warning A recent Commonspot patch has introduced a minor bug in the rich text editor element. Any text edits will generate an HTML cleanup warning message. Paperthin is working on a remedy for this problem, which should be applied in the next couple of days. In the meantime, just click the "continue" button to bypass the warning message. Read More »
Text Characters for Other Languages Commonspot now supports text characters for languages other than the standard character encoding for the Latin alphabet. Read More »
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