Embedded Site and Section Sections

An embedded site is a great feature but a bit tricky to understand at first. This type of section allows you to take someone else’s web site and embed it within your own site. It allows you to present the information someone else maintains on another site without having to retype anything. When the owner of the embedded site updates their site the information is updated on your site too. The catch is that this only applies to SiteMaker sites served from the Robertson County Schools’ web server. Any other sites, even SiteMaker sites hosted on another server, cannot be embedded on your site with this feature. To emded media from an external site consider using a Mixed Media section (use a web page pane).

For example, if your school’s PTO has a web site hosted with SiteMaker on the Robertson County Schools’ web sever then the person maintaining your school’s web site can embed that PTO site on the school’s web site. This makes the PTO’s information easily accessible from the school’s site but allows the PTO officers to maintain their own content completely separate from the the school’s main content.

If that PTO site is not hosted with SiteMaker (regardless of what web server it is hosted from) the embedded site feature cannot be used. Other options would be to link to this site with a single link or file section or display it with an iframe within a mixed media section.

An embedded section is similar to an embedded site. The difference is that rather than embedding an entire SiteMaker site within your web site you are embedding a specific page or section from another site within yours.

A consequence to embedding a site or section is that you force the foreign content to be displayed with the style you choose for your site (or that particular section) regardless of the style the other site owner chose for their content.

To summarize, embedding another site tells SiteMaker to display the contents of another SiteMaker site in your site. The home page for the embedded site shows up as a link in your navigational menu. All the other pages on the embedded site are indented under this link in your navigational menu. On the other hand, an embedded section allows you to just choose to display one section (page) from someone else's site on your site. No other links automatically show up in your navigational menu.

Note: Neither of these types of sections can be used as your site’s home page.