Finding a Site to Embed

Half the battle of embedding another site or a specific section of another site in your site is knowing the site id of the other site. Keep in mind that you can only embed a site or section from another Robertson County Schools site served by SiteMaker.

Understanding Site Names and IDs.

Each site has two attributes that you need to understand in order to use this feature. When a new site is created it is given a site id. This is something the SiteMaker administrator can change, but not a site owner. The site id (yours is displayed at the top of the browser window when you are editing a site) is the piece of information you need to embed a site or section.

The other attribute is the site name. This is the banner text you set in Overall Appearance. This starts out as the site id until the owner changes it.

List of Published Sites

SiteMaker has one page that displays a list of all currently published sites. This is simply a list of site names which link to their respective sites.

Search for Sites

SiteMaker also provides a tool for searching sites. This serach engine is not like Google or Yahoo as it does not search the contents of any sites. It simply looks for your search cretieria across its list of site names and site ids.

Reading a SiteMaker URL

You can also navigate to a site and read its URL from your browser's location bar to get the site's id. Here's how to discect a URL to get the information you need using http://www.rcstn.net/joe.swann/home as an example.

• http://www.rcstn.net is the protocol and domain for Robertson County Schools. A good rule of thumbe here: if you don't see our domain, you can embed it.
• /joe.swann is the site id. This part (without the leading forward slash) is the information you are looking for when you want to embed a site or section.
• /home is the name of the section you are viewing. If you are looking at a data access section there will be more code behind this.