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Tailoring a set of standard_style research group pages
Introduction
To make it easier for you to tailor the content of your set of standard_style Research Group Pages, Rbrgp actually builds each page from several "content files".
When you first use Rbrgp these files may already exist. If they do, they will contain a comment describing what sort of information should be contained in the file.
If the files do not exist, and you wish to use them, copy them from another research group's web directory (under
/web/cs/docs/research/groups/<research_group_directory_name>) and edit accordingly. The
/web/cs/docs/research/groups/compintresearch group is a good place to start.
In general, the files should be written in HTML unless only a simple paragraph is required.
Detail
| Webpage | Content file | M/O | Usage |
| index | aims | M |
Place the aims and objectives information which
describes your research group in this file and then rebuild the
page using Rbrgp.
You are limited to a maximum of 150 displayed words, so if you need to provide additional information, build separate webpages (using Rbargp) and provide links to these pages from within this section. |
| list_interests | M |
Include only a list of research group interests, one per line.
Keep each line as short as possible. Eg.
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| research_interests | research_interests | M | Use this file to describe in detail all the research areas in which your group is interested in. There is no word count limit operating on this file. However, if you wish to provide links to further information create those additional pages using the Rbargp utility. |
| membership | membership/interests.<login> | O | Include a brief description of research areas that interest you. This information is listed next to your name on the group membership page. Try not to exceed about 4 lines of displayed text. |
| grants | grants | O | Place information about any grants held by members of your research group in this file and then rebuild the page using the Rbrgp build utility. If the grants file is present, the group index page will provide a link to it once the Rbrgp utility is run. If the grants file is absent, there is no link from the index page once the Rbrgp utility is run. |
| events/index | events/news | O |
Place information about conferences, visits etc.
in this file but do not include too much detail. This section is
limited to a maximum of 150 displayed words. To include this
content into the 'News and Seminars' webpage, re-build the
webpage using the Rbrgp utility. Note: this file is optional;
you do not have to provide any news!
You can provide links from this section to additional webpages containing more detailed information. You should use the Rbargp build program to build additional pages. If a 'news' file is not provided, that section is omitted from the page. |
| events/seminars | O |
Include details of all your group seminars in this file.
You are advised to adopt the system described below to list seminars.
This will ensure a consistent look and feel across all the seminar
webpages in the department. It is quite straight forward to do if you
keep to the following instructions:
a. Create an index entry file for the new seminar.
To do this, take a copy of the Seminar Index Entry Skeleton file
and modify it, for example
b. Include the newly created index entry file in the 'seminars' file.
For example, include the line
c. Re-build the 'News and Seminars' webpage to incorporate the new seminar details using the Rbrgp build utility. Seminars are listed in the order you #include them in the 'seminars' file. |