How To Use Headers

Using Horticulture Format

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When you have a new Horticulture web page you want to add the Horticulture format to, follow these steps:

Give the file a .php extension. (e.g. newfile.php)

Put the following text at the top of file (In Dreamweaver, view source code to place at the top):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>
         Your New Page's Title

      </TITLE>

<?php include ("includes/header.php") ?>

Put the following text at the bottom of your file:
```
<?php include ("includes/footer.html") ?>
```
Look at the web folder your file is/will be saved in. Count how many folders away is it from the main WWW directory.
Examples (colors only for clarity):
- 0 Folders away: WWW/
- 1 Folder away: WWW/pumpkin/
- 2 Folders away: WWW/homehort/hcompost/
- 3 Folders away: WWW/Musser/peachs/images/
- 6 Folders away: WWW/courses/sustainable_schoolyards/Designing_SSHs/sustainability papers/Hort208 Fall 2000/HTML Presentation folder/
For each folder away, put one "../" in front of includes/header.php at the top of your file.
Examples (colors only for clarity):
- 0 Folders away: <?php include ("includes/header.php") ?>
- 1 Folder away: <?php include ("../includes/header.php") ?>
- 2 Folders away: <?php include ("../../includes/header.php") ?>
- 3 Folders away: <?php include ("../../../includes/header.php") ?>
- 6 Folders away: <?php include ("../../../../../../includes/header.php") ?>
Put the same number of "../" in front of includes/footer.html at the bottom of your file.
(Optional) If you want a banner without images,
change header.php to headerNoPicture.php.

If you have a banner of your own and don't want a banner at all,
change header.php to headerNoBanner.php.

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