Upper Right
The next box of the pre-planning template is the upper right hand corner of your website. Go ahead and open up HomeSite and open the file "upperright.inc.php" which is in the "includes" folder of the website.
Notice that when you open up this file there is no displayed. This is because it is an empty file. Now there is something to be said about building a website with as little code as possible to make the site streamlined and easy to download. However, there is more to be said about building a website for future expansion and flexibility.
If there is nothing to put in this box right now, don't worry. The file is here for future use. Some people like to put announcements here. While still others like to put a place to sign up for a newsletter, or an in store special. This is just a nice place to put some information that is pertinent to every single page of a website.
We don't recommend deleting the file because it will be much harder to put something there in the future. However, if you really feel that you absolutely have to delete this file, here is how you do it.
In HomeSite, navigate to the "index.php" file which is in the main folder of the website.
Scroll down to the lines that say:
| <td width="70%"><!--- Main Header (70% <h1><center></center></h1>) ---><?php include ("includes/header.inc.php"); ?></td> <td><!--- Blank Column ---> </td> <td width="160"><!--- Upper Right Corner (160x160 or 10% <center></center>) ---><?php include("includes/upperright.inc.php"); ?></td> |
Replace them with this line:
| <td width="70%" colspan="3"><!--- Main Header (70% <h1><center></center></h1>) ---><?php include ("includes/header.inc.php"); ?></td> |
Again, we absolutely do not recommend doing this. If you ever wanted to replace the upper right hand corner later on, you would have to replace the three lines above on every single webpage on the website. Over time, this is a lot of web pages and replacing the code can be a frustrating process.
