Website Integration

Website integration:

This section provides help for integrating our webpages into external websites and redirecting external websites to a website at RCampus:

- How to use your own domain name with your website at RCampus:
For instructions on how to purchase and/or use your own domain name (e.g. www.mydomainname.com) with our websites, please see domain name upgrade.

- How to embed your RCampus website into an external website:
This method would embed our content into another website using HTML frames elements. HTML frames allow a webpage to display the content of another site. As a result, visitors do not see the web address of the actual content (i.e. our web address).

To embed your site into an external site, change the content of the external site's home or index page (usually called index.htm or default.htm) to the following HTML code:

index.htm or default.htm file:

<frameset rows="1" cols="1">
  <frame src="https://www.rcampus.com/?xsite=myloginname">
</frameset>

- How to redirect an existing website to your website at RCampus:
This method will redirect visitors from an existing website to your site at RCampus.

To redirect an external site, change the content of its home or index page (usually called index.htm or default.htm) to the following HTML code:

index.htm or default.htm file:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" 
  content="4;url=https://www.rcampus.com/?xsite=myloginname">
</head>
<body>
You are being redirected to 
https://www.rcampus.com/?xsite=myloginname in 4 seconds.  

Click <a href="https://www.rcampus.com/?xsite=myloginname">
here</a> 
if the page does not load properly.
</body>
</html>

Which method is better for you?
Each method (using your domain name, embedding, or redirection) has it's advantages and disadvantages.

Using your domain name is the best option. It brands your website and makes it easier to remember. It also gives you other capabilities such as using custom email addresses and much more. The only disadvantage is the additional cost of purchasing a and hosting a domain name which can be as little as $30 a year using our low cost upgrades.

Embedding uses HTML frames which is not supported by older versions of many browsers. That should not discourage you from using frames because our site includes many newer features that do not work with older browsers anyway. The advantage of using frames is that your domain name (e.g. www.yourdomainname.com) will always show in the address bar of the browser. The drawback to that is that visitors can only bookmark the homepage and not other pages in your site. Another drawback is new privacy and security issues which would block frames from correctly loading web pages from other servers.

Redirection works differently. Instead of loading our site into your home page, it'll simply send visitors from your external site to your site on our server. As a result your original web address will remain valid. Because this method does not use frames, visitors can bookmark individual pages. But your external web address will not show in the address bar.