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Index.html

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The index.html is the first and most important document that you'll need and conveniently, you only need to make one small change to it! You will want to set the browser title (the most important factor in search indexing) to reflect your department's name. For added search "oomph" you can customize the description and keyword meta tags, but that's optional.

Because Dreamweaver is a bit clunky with frames, you may want to do this step in a simple text editor, like Notepad or Wordpad (Windows), or SimpleText (Mac 9) or TextEdit (OS X).

Fill in your department's name between the "title tags".
for example:

<title>Department of Hematology</title>

For the optional meta tags, you can change them from the following defaults to anything that makes sense for your site:

<META name="description" content="An informational site of the Stanford University School of Medicine">
<META name="keywords" content="stanford, school, medicine,">

If you are brave, and want to try to do this in Dreamweaver, here's how:

  1. Open the index.html file; don't attempt to click on or change anything in the display windows.
  2. Use the command sequence Modify > Frameset > Edit NoFrames Content
  3. This positions you so you can edit what folks (now rare) who don't have frames-capable browser will see or read. It also puts you in position to click on the Code View icon (<>) to access the code of index.html.
  4. You can now edit the code as above.
  5. When you're done, don't look for Save or Save As. Just click the close box, and click OK when Dreamweaver prompts you to save changes.

The index.html file serves as the master blueprint dividing up your screen and telling which frames to go where. It's also the "default" file name on Luge (and most Apache servers). This means that the user can use the shorter URL www-med.stanford.edu/yoursite/ instead of www-med.stanford.edu/yoursite/index.html

Make sure you have a copy of it in your folder or directory and remember not to name any of your other files index.html!

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