CommonSpot and Web Site Development

CommonSpot is UWRF's website content management system (CMS) - the software that houses the UW-River Falls website. Using CommonSpot is the only way web authors build, edit, and manage their web content on uwrf.edu. Faculty and staff must have clearance to become a web author from their department or office. Contact individual departments for information on their approved authors.

Benefits

• Keeps the structure of our website uniform
• Makes managing web content fast and easy
• Easy-to-use software that anyone can learn
• Available on and off campus 24 hours a day for editing
• Allows you to track traffic through your site

Resources

• CMS training, open lab hours, how to use CommonSpot: Visit the CMS training site
• Log into the CMS (for authors) by visiting the page you want to edit, scrolling to the bottom of the page and choosing Administrative Log In in the lower right corner
• Vendor: http://www.paperthin.com/
• More about CommonSpot at PaperThin.com