Content Management System (CMS)

Read about the campus CMS, a free web content management tool to manage your UC San Diego website.

We offer a free web content management tool to manage your UC San Diego website.

Benefits

• With little or no experience, you can build and maintain a professional website using campus templates.
• It creates a common, coherent look across UC San Diego.
• See other benefits.

Best for

• An academic Department or Program or official ORU. At this time, we cannot support labs, student organizations, or Health Sciences (clinical) sites. Note: School of Medicine sites are now eligible for the campus CMS. See School of Medicine Websites Migration for details.
• The site must be permanent. One-time events, notices, and other temporary items should be advertised on an existing website.
• The CMS does not support the course, lab, student organization, or research level. See on-campus web resources.

Limitations

• The CMS is not a web application development platform—it's just for HTML pages.
• It doesn't support intranets or password-protected content.
• It's not a wiki, blog, or scheduling platform though you can link to these products as well as embed objects into your CMS page.

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• Hannon Hill Cascade

Example site

• department.ucsd.edu shows examples of templates and modules available with the CMS. Best practices and some 'what not to do's are also covered.

Get started

1. Review the Prerequisites.
2. Fill out our CMS site request form.