Template Usage:
How to Apply the Template

The following information assumes usage of Macromedia Dreamweaver, knowledge of Server Side Includes (SSIs), possession of the "GOLDENMASTER.zip" and that your website is hosted at www.csulb.edu

Before extracting "GOLDENMASTER.zip," identify the following elements of your division's website:

1. Global navigation menu(s) or navigation menu(s) that will display on every page of your Division's website.
2. Banner(s) that will be used for the division.
3. Footer(s) that will be used for the division
4. Copy the HTML for each of the identified elements and paste into a separate file. (Note: Remove all head and body tags and content.) View the source for guidance: SAMPLE GLOBAL MENU, SAMPLE BANNER, SAMPLE FOOTER

Extract GOLDENMASTER.zip using any archive extraction software available to you.
For example: WinZip(PC) or Stuffit (MAC). ***PC users ensure that "use folder names" is checked.

Using the "GOLDENMASTER" to create a *.dwt

1. Create a backup of "goldenmaster" folder
   
   
2. a. Bring the goldenmaster.dwt into the /Templates directory
   b. Bring /ADMIN directory into site root
   c. Update any references to "goldenmaster" in goldenmaster.dwt code by using find and replace to update the following text in the HTML source
   
   /misc/staging/goldenmaster
   
   with
   
   /divisions/(division_name) or the root-relative path to your directory
   
   d. Make sure paths to menu and other includes are modified in goldenmaster.dwt
   
   
3. If libraries are NOT being used for menus skip to #4:
   a. convert libraries to SSI, strip unnecessary html and change extension to .htm
   b. move/copy them to /ADMIN/interface/
   
   
4. Now that the location to your includes have been updated we can paste content into the following files:
   a. Global navigation menu = ADMIN/menu_top/menu_top.html
   b. Banner = ADMIN/interface/banner_website.html
   c. Footer = ADMIN/interface/footer.html
   
   
5. Modify the file located at /ADMIN/interface/breadcrumbs.html to change:
   
   http://www.csulb.edu/misc/staging/goldenmaster
   
   to
   
   http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/(division_name)
   
   
6. Save "goldenmaster.dwt"
   a. Upload "sample.html"
   b. View "sample.html" in a browser. This confirms "goldenmaster.dwt" is correctly installed.
   
   
7. Save "goldenmaster.dwt" as "division.dwt"
   -. if prompted, set all editable regions to NOWHERE

Applying the Template

New pages

1. Create a file based on "division.dwt".
2. Cut and paste content into the editable region named LAYOUTBODY

Current pages based on the old template:

1. Apply the template to the pages.