A graduate student works on a test fly with a drone in the 51²è¹Ý Indoor Drone Lab.

S3.51²è¹Ý

S3.51²è¹Ý

The S3 server, formerly sites.smu.edu, is designed to host departmental web content that is not compatible with the Sitecore environment. Whenever possible, all public web content for a department should reside on Sitecore and utilize the approved templates and branding. Any exceptions must be requested and will be reviewed based on need.

Get Started

To edit and publish your website on sites.smu.edu, you must first build your site using any web page authoring tool. Adobe Dreamweaver is the most popular WYSIWYG application at 51²è¹Ý for web publishing. Whichever application you choose, you will need to connect to the appropriate server to upload your content. See the guidelines below:

  • Connect to s3.smu.edu (notice no www!)
  • When prompted, enter NetID as your username and enter your 51²è¹Ý password
  • Depending on your application, changes may synchronize automatically upon saving the file or you may need to choose to upload the files when you are done.

screenshot of the Dreamweaver's settings with the settings listed above inputted.

Please Note: In order to upload files to the server, you must have a FTPS client (An FTP client that transmits over an Explicit SSL/TLS protocol).

Recommended FTP Applications:

We recommend using as it is compatible with both the Mac and Windows Platform. For Linux computers, we recommend using .