University of Connecticut
Emergency Banner Code InstallationDoes your Site Need the Alert Code?To find out, type the URL of your website in the box below and click the “Check” button.The University Alert Notification System provides a number of ways in which the University may contact the community in the event of an emergency. One crucial component of this System includes a web-activated emergency banner that will appear on all University of Connecticut websites. In the event of an emergency, this banner will be implemented automatically by authorized University officials, directing the community to the alert.uconn.edu site for more specific emergency instructions and information. Once implemented, the banner will appear when University webpages with this appropriate code are accessed and/or refreshed in web browsers. When the emergency is clear, the emergency banner will be automatically removed The code for this emergency banner is already built into the University web template system. For those using the template version released in March 2007, which point to the global files on the central web server, no additional code is required. However, you will need to add a line of code to your homepage(s) if:
If your website(s) meet any of these conditions, you are strongly encouraged to copy the following javascript code and paste it into your homepage source code just before the </head> tag: <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://alert.uconn.edu/alert.js"></script> Please note that you will not see any change to the appearance of your page in the web browsers until the emergency banner is tested or activated in an actual emergency. When activated, an emergency banner will appear as follows: Watch your email for announcements on the WWWADM-L listserv email regarding any upcoming tests regarding the emergency banner. If you have any questions regarding the emergency banner, please email to Webtools@uconn.edu |
