Creating a Lab Site
We encourage our faculty members to maintain a lab site on the School Web site. We have a section on the site set aside specifically for these “mini-sites”: http://pharmacy.unc.edu/research/labs/.
If you want to create a lab site, please contact John Zhu or David Etchison in the School’s Office of Communications, and they will set one up for you and give you access to manage its content.
How Your Lab Site Is Structured
The entire School site, including your lab site, is made up of a number of folders and pages. A page is the basic building block of the site. If you want to put text on the site, you create a page and put the text on there. A folder is pretty much like a folder in Windows. It holds other content, such as pages, images, files, and other folders. Your lab site, for instance, is a folder under the Labs folder, which is in turn under the Research folder.
A Quick Overview of A Lab Site page
1. Page title: The page title area is automatically filled in when you create the page and give it a name.
2. Navigation tree: When you add a page or folder, a link to it automatically appears in this column. You have the ability to rearrange the order in which items appear in the navigation tree, and you can also hide a particular page or folder from the navigation tree. In addition, you can add a link to the navigation tree without adding a page or folder (for instance, a link to another Web site).
3. Main content area: This is the area you have direct control over. You can add text, images, and video to this area.
4. Contact information box: A number of different types of content can go in this column. On the home page of each lab site, we generally put a box with contact information for that faculty in this column. On the other pages of a lab site, by default there is no content in this column, so the main content area stretches out wider on those pages. To change the content in this column, please contact John Zhu or David Etchison. The reason you do not have access to change the content in this column is that giving someone access to edit that column on one page would necessitate giving them the power to edit the content in that column for every page on the site, which is too much.
