Web Framework

The RIT Web Framework is a upcoming dynamic layout and theme system based on the YUI CSS tools reset, fonts, and grids. It is currently only in a testing form, so it is not available to the public.

In the meantime, and in an initial effort to brand the university as a whole, an RIT identity bar was created so that all of RIT's various official websites would have a consistent element to them all.

To use the identity bar from RIT's main web hosting environment, you only have to include two different lines of code.

The first line is dependent on whether your page is a PHP page or an HTML page.

PHP code for RIT identity bar

<?php include('/home/w-home/www/framework/v0/rit-identitybar.html'); ?>
						

HTML code for RIT identity bar

<!--#include virtual="/framework/v0/rit-identitybar.html" -->
						

Note: If you are using a server other than RIT's main web hosting environment, there are a few extra steps that need to be taken. First, you need to make sure HTML files are being processed for Server Side Includes. Second, if your server can't include the files directly from their origin, then you should set up a daily job to grab the identity bar file and save it to your own server, and change the include lines above to refer to the location where the identity bar file is being saved to your server.

Finally, you have to include the CSS style file that we make the RIT identity bar appear correctly.

CSS style for RIT identity bar

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/framework/v0/css-metanav-orange.css" />
						

Note: Want to change the color of your bar? Just change the word orange in the line above to brown, black, dgrey, or lgrey. Want your bar to be white with colored text? Just change the word orange in the line above to white-orange, white-brown, white-black, white-dgrey, or white-lgrey.

Please also make sure that if the general font size in the CSS of your site is different from the main RIT site, you may have to tweak the font-size property in your CSS so that your version of the identity bar matches the offical version.

On a different web host? Just add "http://www.rit.edu" to the start of the "/framework" reference.