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Subpages

Description

Most of the content of your site will be in subpages, which will ideally reflect the natural classification of content in your site. You can create these from a subpage.html template provided in the template set. Just like your front "main" page all your subpages will be displayed in the main frame. Because you will strike many new pages from this file, it's a good idea to do some prep work first:

Preparing the subpage.html file for cloning:

  1. Open the subpage.html file from your local copy of the template set in your HTML editor (Dreamweaver for example)
  2. Change the site name portion of the browser title of the page (PageNameHere - SiteNameHere) to reflect the name of your site. Change the title in Dreamweaver by choosing the Title text shown in the toolbar area of the screen, or by selecting Modify > Page Properties and changing the Title field.
  3. Replace the template banner graphic with the banner graphic for your site. You can open main.html, select the banner graphic and copy, then return to subpage.html, select the banner graphic and paste. Or, in Dreamweaver, Double click the template banner graphic and navigate the select file dialog box to the image file for your banner. Don't forget the "Alt" tag. A nice trick is to set a link from your banner graphic to either your main.html Home page, or to the index.html file with target="_top" This will allow users to click quickly back to your home page any time.
  4. Save the subpage.html file

To create a subpage:

  1. Open the subpage.html file from your local copy of the template set in your HTML editor (Dreamweaver for example) if it is not already open
  2. Use the command sequence File > Save As... to give the file a new name. Avoid using spaces or special characters in your file names. All page files must end .html or .htm to be served properly.
  3. Change the page name portion of the browser title of the page (PageNameHere - SiteNameHere) to reflect the name of your new page. For example Fellowships - Department of Departmentology. Change the title in Dreamweaver by choosing the Title text shown in the toolbar area of the screen, or by selecting Modify > Page Properties and changing the Title field..
  4. Add the content to the page. Take advantage of the CSS style sheet integrated with SiteBuilder 2 to have a consistent look and feel.
  5. Save the file and check it in your browser. If you are developing the site on a Web server, you can put the file to the server.
  6. You will need to link to the new page, usually from the localnav.html file for your site. You may also choose to add links to the subpage from other pages in your site.

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