Implementing the IUPUI Web Template

Template Advantages

• Your site is part of the campus web template. You look like a part of IUPUI. You receive the benefits of a professionally designed, multiple-award winning, highly accessible web template.
• You receive updates to the template automatically. Your site automatically includes IUPUI communications, including JAGALERT emergency communications.
• But, your site still looks different to users. Visitors to your site are presented strong visual cues that they are on a different department's website.
• Your department has more options to brand itself. Color and photography not only differentiate your site from others, but help you brand it and tailor it to your audience.

In a Nutshell

Each page on your site will be structured in this way:

1. Header - this is pulled automatically from the IUPUI website, thus contains the current JAGALERT status, and the most current styling information.
2. Navigation - this is, usually, a left navigation bar found on each page. This is hosted on your web server and is editable by your web developer
3. Content - this is hosted on your web server. This is the meat of the page — the content — and is managed by your web developer.
4. Footer - this is pulled automatically from the IUPUI website, thus contains the most current styling, news, and events.

Getting Started

The Office of Communications & Marketing will assist with the setup of this system for your website.

1. Contact the OCM Web Team in the Office of Communications & Marketing for an initial consultation.
2. Determine the page navigation schema for your site
3. Determine the Design Options for the template
4. OCM will set up a master template file on your server.

Once the master file is set up, any web developer can easily use that master file as a template for the rest of the site.

DIY — Implementing the template yourself

The type of server your site is hosted on determines the process for implementing the template:

• Instructions for IU Central Servers (webserve)
• Instructions for Departmental Servers — including Apache/PHP and Windows servers
• Instructions for IU's Cascade Content Management System — Instructions are not yet available for this system.