Lesson 4. Site Contact Information

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Part of running an Elvis web site is getting in touch with Elvis fans the world over. One way to do this is to provide contact information on your site so that visitors can email you. Let's create an email link at the bottom of each page on your site that lets people send you feedback.

  1. Click the Properties tab.

  2. Type webmaster in the Name field.

  3. Type your email address in the Value field.

  4. Click the Add button.

Now you've created a property that defines your email address. Now let's put a link to this address in the web page footer.

  1. Click the Contents tab to return to the list of items in the folder, then click the standard_html_footer DTML Method to edit it.

  2. Change the contents of the method to::

    <hr>
    <a href="mailto:<dtml-var webmaster>?subject=<dtml-var
    title>">Email Webmaster</a>
    </body>
    </html>
  3. Click the Change button.

We've change the standard Zope footer. Now let's verify that this change is reflected in our web pages.

  1. Navigate to the home.html document in the lesson4 folder by clicking on the lesson4 location link and then clicking on the home.html document.

  2. Now click the View tab to view the web site.

Notice that there is now an email link at the bottom of every web page. The email link uses the property you defined and includes the title of the web page as the email subject.

The email link appears on every page because every page includes the standard_html_footer object with the <dtml-var> tag.

Summary

By consolidating content into components such as a common footer you can provide a uniform look and feel for your web site.

In the next lesson you'll see how to organize content with a collection of Zope objects.


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