IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.
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:
- Header - this is pulled automatically from the IUPUI website, thus contains the current JAGALERT status, and the most current styling information.
- 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
- Content - this is hosted on your web server. This is the meat of the page — the content — and is managed by your web developer.
- 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.
- Contact Steve Hodges in the Office of Communications & Marketing for an initial consultation.
- Determine the page navigation schema for your site
- Determine the Design Options for the template
- 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.
