Using This Curry Site Page Template
This Dreamweaver template folder contains all you need to begin creating web pages for your personal web space or for your courses. You can publish your personal web pages in the "public_html" folder in your Home Directory space, but the University provides you with additional space to publish other professional information (e.g., pages for courses you teach, research projects in which you are involved, etc.) on the U.Va. faculty web server! If you want to use the links on the left and are reading this page directly in Dreamweaver, you will have to launch a web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox) and open this file in it. The folder contains the following files:
- an 'images' folder with image files that are used to create a layout that mimics the Curry web site interface
- a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) that is used in conjunction with the template to create the page layout
- a JavaScript file that is also used in conjunction with the template to create the page layout
- a 'Templates' folder that contains the template master to use to create your pages
- an 'index.html' file, created from the template, that you should use as the "home" page for your site
- the 'readThis.html' file you are now reading
The links on the left panel take you to the U.Va. ITC's sites: to request faculty web space, an overview of ITC "cool tools," ITC site on using Home Directory space for your personal web pages, ITC information on using Dreamweaver templates, and the Curry intranet.
Presumably, since you are reading this page, you have extracted the archive and have set up a site in Dreamweaver for your work. The "site," at this point will only contain the files described above. You can open the "index.html" file to begin creating your site's "home" page. To create additional pages using the template, follow these steps:
- Choose "New..." from the Dreamweaver File menu
- In the resulting dialog box, select the "Templates" tab or window
- In the first pane, select the name of the site you have created for this template and the template, named "curry," should appear in the other pane along with (depending on your version of Dreamweaver) a thumbnail view of the layout
- With this template selected, click on the "Create" button and a new "untitled" file will be created based on the template
- Save the file with the name of your choice in the root folder of your site (that is, don't save it in the 'Templates' or 'images' folders!)
- You can now begin adding content to your new page. You are able to edit only four areas in the template:
- the Title of the page
- the "Page Title" header
- the content area (this is where 99% of what you add to the page will go)
- the topmost navigation links ("ITEM 1," etc.) in the lefthand pane
When you are ready to upload your material to your web space server, do not upload the "Templates" folder. You only need that locally to create your content. If you add images to your pages, save the images in the 'images' folder and make sure all images delivered with this template are uploaded to your site. Finally, upload any pages you created, the "curry.js" file, and the "curry.css" file. Your pages will not look right if you fail to upload these important CSS and JavaScript files!
Good luck with your page creation. If you have difficulty at any time, click on the "Tech Work Request" link in the Intranet's left hand navigation and send ETO an e-mail with a description of your question. Someone from ETO will get in touch with you for more information or a resolution to your problem.