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Anatomy of OUICE
- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
- <title>Unique page title goes here -- The Open University</title>
- <meta name="description" content="Another Open University web site" />
- <meta name="keywords" content="open, university, open university" />
- <link href="http://www.open.ac.uk/includes/header.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
- <link href="http://www.open.ac.uk/includes/ice/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
- <link href="http://www.open.ac.uk/includes/ice/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" />
- <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.open.ac.uk/includes/header.js"></script>
- <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.open.ac.uk/includes/ice/library.js"></script>
- <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.open.ac.uk/includes/ice/scripts.js"></script>
- </head>
- <body class="ou">
- <div id="org">
- <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes/header-centre-09.html'; ?>
- <div id="site">
- <div id="site-header">
- <!-- Your header goes here -->
- <!-- See http://www.open.ac.uk/wikis/webstandards/Website_template_(OUICE) -->
- <!-- Here you will find HTML patterns for inserting here -->
- </div>
- <div id="site-body">
- <div id="page">
- <div id="region0">{content}</div>
- <div id="region1">{content}</div>
- <div id="region2">{content}</div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <div id="site-footer">
- <!-- Your footer goes here -->
- <!-- See http://www.open.ac.uk/wikis/webstandards/Website_template_(OUICE) -->
- <!-- Here you will find HTML patterns for inserting here -->
- </div>
- </div>
- <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes/footer-09.html'; ?>
- </div>
- <!-- Your web stats code and other javascripts go here -->
- </body>
- </html>
See a visual representation of the HTML structure:

Change log
- 2009-09-11 -- GC: Changed div id="ou" to div id="org", changed all instances of "/webstandards/gui/" to "/includes/ice"
- 2009-06-23 -- GC: Changed the code to add the new OU header and footer (lines 17 and 37).