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KU Web Template

Updating a Web site on an Information Services web server

Update your new Site Settings file


If your KU web site was using the old KU Web Template, then you may already have a navigation file and a footer file that you'd like to continue to use. If so, update your new Site Settings file to use your existing template files. The example below shows a typical configuration for template users, but you may need to customize this text for your own site. Don't forget to replace accountname with the actual name of your account.
<!--#set var="sitetitle" value="KU: Your Title Here" --> <!--#set var="sitekeywords" value="Your metadata keywords here, separated by commas" --> <!--#set var="sitedescription" value="A description of your site here." --> <!--#set var="kuaffiliation" value="KU Affiliation Here" --> <!--#set var="kuaffiliationlink" value="http://www.ku.edu/" --> <!--#set var="mynavigation" value="/~accountname/ssi/navigation.shtml" --> <!--#set var="myfooter" value="/~accountname/ssi/footer_file.shtml" --> <!--#include virtual="/~http/ssi/header_ku.shtml" -->

Choose your favorite editing style


Everyone who creates and maintains web sites has a different way of doing it, and it's impossible to cover all the possibilities here. The remainder of this How-To will be split into two different guides, one for each of two common file editing methods: