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Choose a Web Development Template

To aid in the design of Web pages, the following templates have been created for your use. These templates were developed to provide a variety of options for Web page design. It is intended that these templates provide a basis from which to design your own pages.

Before using these templates, you should understand the basic funtions of Dreamweaver or MS Front Page. This includes formating Web page text, creating links, and saving documents to the campus Web server.

Below a description of each template is given in the right column. Within each template you will find the source code and directions for use. You may alter font faces and background colors by altering the style sheet.

Template	Description
Single column page	Single column page with link home page in header.
2 column with navigation bar "include"	Two columns with server side include navigation (SSI) See instructions below.

Please use these templates only if you are a student, staff or faculty member at UW-River Falls and/or you are developing web pages to be hosted on the www server at UW-River Falls.

Server Side Includes (SSI): "SSI" navigation is incorporated into a template to make modifying the navigation of a web site easier as more pages are added to your site. SSI pages include, or address, another page that contains the sites navigation links. On the campus web development template above, this file is called nav.html. SSI template users should create the nav.html web page in the same folder as the pages that are including the nav.html file. Edits made to nav.html will appear on all the pages in your site that are addressing nav.html.

Remember - any page can be used as a template for a new page when you select File>Save As. Simply remove the previous pages content and add the new content. (Don't forget to save your page in its current state before saving it as a different document.)

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Choose a Web Development Template