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Optional Highlight Box

main.html contains a default right-aligned highlight box. This highlight box is optional. To remove it, simply select the highlight box's table and delete. Should you wish to add highlight boxes to your other pages, you can copy either a right-aligned box like this, or a full-width box, from the style_guide.html included in the template set.

main.html is your front, or "Home," page, the first thing people will see when they visit your site, and should contain appropriate content. It appears in the large, right "main" frame, which is where your various site pages will also be displayed. The default main.html page comes with a default banner graphic, some default text, and a default half-ruled box for highlight text.

To set up your main.html page:

  1. Open the main.html file from your local copy of the template set in your HTML editor (Dreamweaver for example)
  2. Change the browser title of the page (Home - SiteNameHere) to reflect the name of your site. For example Home - 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. Best practice for browser titles is to work from specific to general, i.e. "Application - Fellowships - Department of Departmentology"
  3. Replace the template banner graphic with the banner graphic for your site (a Photoshop template is provided so that you can create your own, or you can get one from IRT Development). 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 to set the "Alt" text for the graphic.
  4. Add the front-page 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 page in your site directory and upload it to your site.

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