Foundation Templates

Foundation templates consist of 3 templates:

• Home.htm - this HTML file is technically not a template in that it is not generated through ACEweb.  It is a static page displaying the ACEweb links (e.g. Courses Offered, Personal Information, etc.).  You can use it as your ACEweb Home page, or you can skip it entirely and just put the ACEweb links on your existing site.
• Standard.htm - contains the design elements (e.g. headers, navigation sidebars, and footers) that are added when generating most of the content specific web pages (i.e. course information page, enrollment cart, etc.).
• Minimal.htm - some message dialogs, quick entry forms, and administrative pages use Minimal.htm, which by default has minimal design elements (e.g. header but no footer or navigation sidebar).

There is a default design applied to these templates. You may use this default design as is; use it but apply your own color scheme with the Interface Manager; or you may apply your own design to the templates.

Home.htm

Home.htm is an optional template provided to ACEweb customers that can server as the "portal" into ACEweb, displaying the ACEweb links (e.g. Course Schedule, Logon form, etc.).

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Using Home.htm is not required. You can skip it completely and just put ACEweb links on your existing home page (e.g. courses by program link, instructor roster link, etc.) so users can go straight to the selected ACEweb page.

You access the home.htm page with the following URL (where yourdomain is your web server domain name):

https://yourdomain/wconnect/ace/home.htm

Edit Home.htm Information

Home.htm is merely a static web page with links into the ACEweb site. No information on home.htm is generated by ACEweb (e.g. information isn't inserted from aceweb.ini settings or Student Manager data).

If you want to edit any of the links or text statements on the home.htm page, you must edit the page with an HTML editor (e.g. Dreamweaver, Notepad, etc.) and edit the desired element.

Default Student Logon Option

The default student logon option for new installs is Email and Password.  If you use one of the other logon options, you must update the labels and field names as well.

The logon fields are name:

ID # or Email Address:  StuID
Password:  txtPassword
Initials:  txtShortName

Home.htm as Domain Home Page

You can use the ACEweb Home.htm as the web domain home page --IF-- you don't already have a web domain level home page.

1. Move home.htm from the Templates folder (e.g. inetpub\wwwroot\wconnect\ace) to the main website folder (e.g. inetpub\wwwroot\).
2. Go to the IIS Manager > Default Web Site > Default Document, add a default document called home.htm:

3. Move the home.htm document to the top of the list:

4. Highlight the Home.htm entry in the list then click the Enable link in the Actions pane. Then close IIS Manager.
5. Make certain paths to images, javascript files, and style sheets are correct on the home.htm template. For example, ACEweb style sheets are in the wconnect\ace\css folder so the href path should point to that folder:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/wconnect/ace/css/awStyles.css" media="screen" />

Standard.htm

Standard.htm is the design template used for most ACEweb generated pages.

You can apply your own design--as long as you maintain the integrity of the ##SCRIPTS##, ##-Title-##, and ##-Contents-## tags.

Minimal.htm

The Minimal.htm template is used to generate supplemental information pages such as the Location Information and Fee Breakdown pages, and alerts such as Logon Failed, Missing Credit Card information, etc. The default design is also applied to this template but it offers only a few of the links that are on Standard.htm.

You can apply your own design--as long as you maintain the integrity of the ##-Title-## and ##-Contents-## tags.

Template Section Tags

The other ACEweb templates contain section tags which place specific parts of Standard.htm or Minimal.htm on the page:

• ##Standard.Section1## returns the portion from the beginning to the ##-Title-## tag.
• ##Standard.Section2## returns the portion after the  ##-Title-## tag up to the ##-Contents-## tag.
• ##Standard.Section3## returns the portion after the ##-Contents-## tag to the end of Standard.htm.

The ##SCRITPS## tag on standard.htm pulls in any javascript functions from the content templates.

UseStdHeader INI Setting

The UseStdHeader INI setting determines if design elements from Standard.htm are used in your generated pages.

Reloading Templates

The contents of Standard.htm and Minimal.htm are stored in memory when ACEweb is running. If you make changes to Standard.htm while ACEweb is running, those changes will not be reflected on your site until you reload the HTML templates (into memory).