Dominic Capuano
Analyst Consultant I
Office of Communications & Marketing
Boston University School of Law

General FAQs

You or someone else changed a web page for me but I don't see the changes when I view the page. What is wrong?

Browsers, (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.), will sometimes save or cache pages to your hard drive to save time when loading a web page. If your browser has done this then recent changes made by someone will not show up. What to do?

To view the most recent version of a web page you need to force the browser to reload or refresh the cache.

• If your browser is Firefox then you can either hit the Refresh button, (an arrow, going in a circle clockwise, in the top left corner), or right-click anywhere on the page and click "Reload".
• If your browser is Internet Explorer then you can either hit the Reload button, (2 arrows chasing each other, to the right of the Address bar), or right-click anywhere on the page and click "Refresh".

Contribute FAQs

Why doesn't Contribute let me update pop-ups? I can update other pages within the same directory.

Contribute does in fact let you update pop-ups. The problem is that Contribute opens the pop-up in a browser, (typically Internet Explorer), outside of Contribute.

To edit the pop-up you can do one of two things:

1. Let Contribute open the pop-up in the browser and then copy and paste the URL of the pop-up into the Address box in Contribute
2. In Contribute right-click on the link of the pop-up and and then click on "Copy Shortcut" and paste the URL into the Address box

Why can't I edit forms in Contribute?

Contribute users can't edit forms because Contribute does not allow access to forms. Forms also have underlying code and other issues which require technical expertise to modify.

I can't find a page that I was editing, what do I do?

You can use Contribute's "Choose" button to the right of the Go button after the Address box. Click on this button and you will be able to browse all the directories that you have access to. You will be able to look for your page the same way that you look for files or documents on your computer.

How do I edit the Title of a web page?

Browse to the page whose title you want to change and edit it. Click "Format", "Page Properties", and then "Title/Encoding". Make your changes and then click OK. Publish your draft.

How do I edit the keywords and description metatags of a web page?

Browse to the page whose metatags you want to change and edit it. Click "Format" and then "Page Keywords and Description". Make your changes and then click OK. Publish your draft.

List of the websites of other Law Schools

This list is kept as a reference to compare other law school websites to our own.

• Columbia Law School
• Florida Coastal School of Law
• Harvard Law School
• New York Law School
• Northwestern University School of Law This is a TARE Consortium School
• University of California, Berkeley School of Law, (Boalt Hall)
• University of Florida Levin College of Law This is a TARE Consortium School
• University of Kansas School of Law
• University of New Mexico School of Law Library
• Saint Louis University School of Law
• Stanford Law School
• Yale Law School

Stuff

• SCHEDULE OF HOLIDAYS AND INTERSESSION DAYS