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The Epsilon design is the current standard Brandeis template for webpages. You can edit your webpage by using an HTML editor, such as Adobe GoLive. If you need assistance please do not hesitate to contact Web and Library Application Services: walas @ brandeis.edu
Updating Local Files: If you have edited your pages using GoLive prior to your website's conversion, you will want to update any files you have stored locally on your machine.
Basic Editing: To edit the content of any page, open up the page and work as your would normally. If you have use the source mode or an source-based editor, you may notice that there is no <body> tags and that the <html> tag is not closed. These are actually included in the header and footer files. All you have to do is edit the content below the include statement for the header file. The link to the header file be a relative or root-relative link to the file): <!--#include virtual="header.html"--> should be <!--#include virtual="/yoursite/header.html"--> (see below for more info.)
Root-Relative Linking: The main Brandeis homepage is (typically) the root. If your website's homepage is http://www.brandeis.edu/president and you want to link to something (like the header file) from a page at http://www.brandeis.edu/president/directory/page.html you will want the link to be /president/header.html.
Creating New Pages: Download the template files and use index.html as the template for every page of your site. You will want to rename the file and be careful not to overwrite any existing files. Put the content in the template file replacing the text, "PAGE CONTENT GOES HERE." make sure to update the title
Editing Page Titles:Update the title to say your page/website name. To edit the title in layout mode of Adobe GoLive:
Click "Head"
Click "Title"
Edit the title in the Inspector (get inspector to appear by going to Windows > Inspector).
Updating the Side Navigation: The left sidebar navigation is updated in the file sidebar.html. List pages and update links here as a standard HTML list. The sidebar will work with or without the the main items having sub-items. Similar to the links to the header file in the include statement ( mentioned above ), you will want the links in the sidebar.html file to be root-relative. The main Brandeis homepage is (typically) the root, so if one of the links in the sidebar is http://www.brandeis.edu/president/about.html you will want the link to be /president/about.html. Likewise, if one of the links in sidebar.html is http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/mandel/mission.html you will want the link to be /centers/mandel/mission.html
For help please contact the Web and Library Application Services Office at walas @ brandeis.edu.
