Bren School Web Content Migration

You can edit the information on the Bren website relevant to you when you go to Services -> Edit Your Bren Info. If you are a faculty member, you will be able to edit course information as well as your personal contact information. For more on course information, please see Managing Your Bren Course Info.

Using this "Edit Your Bren Info" form you can add additional content, or link to your own personalized web.

Once you link to your own homepage, a linkable homepage icon appears next to your name on the People listing page and the homepage is linked off your individual People page.

Place Content in Preferred Unix public_html directory

Web content placed in the U:\public_html folder will automatically show up at

http://www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~username

where username is your Bren username. You can edit content using FrontPage.

We have also provided a redirect facility from www.bren.ucsb.edu to redirect ~username links to the www2.bren.ucsb.edu address. This is useful when advertising your own page, because you can use the following address:

http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/~username

The exception here is for faculty who in the past preferred having the above URL redirected to the old http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/fac_staff/fac/username. We recommend you move your content to the new location. Please let us know if you would like this redirection updated via email to webmaster@bren.ucsb.edu.

For example, if you would like to link content placed here from your People page editable via option 1 above, content placed at

U:\public_html\somefolder\somefile.htm

would be publicly viewable and linkable at

http://www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~username/somefolder/somefile.htm

Please note that any page called default.htm (or default.html, index.htm or index.html) will automatically be displayed when browsing to a folder. So, the homepage for your website should be saved to U:\public_html\default.htm.

To include the border content of the Bren website for a "Bren look", start a new web page with the following bren_template.htm file (right-click on link -> Save Target As..), which is the following HTML code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title Here</title>

</head>

Content here.

</html>

The include statements (in italics) above do all the work for you. You need only update the page title and content (in bold). Also, note that the <BODY> and </BODY> tag are already included in the bren_body.inc and bren_foot.inc files.

You would probably want to save the bren_template.htm file to U:\public_html, and make a copy of it as index.htm for your default page. Note that you won't see the border content until you finally view your page at

http://www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~username