Tetrahedrally coordinated titanium atoms incorporated into a silica network are believed to be the active oxidation sites required for heterogeneous silica-supported titania epoxidation catalysts.  Sol-gel chemistry provides an opportunity to produce well mixed metal oxides, but the high reactivity of titanium precursors compare to silicon precursors impedes the molecular level incorporation of Ti(IV) in silica matrix by Si-O-Ti bridges.  The difference in reactivities often generates titanium in unwanted states- either isolated titanium with coordination numbers greater than four or aggregated bulk titania nanoparticles silica.  In this work, homogeneous distribution of titanium at the pore surface is promoted by a ligand-assisted templating method with n-dodecyl β-D-maltoside (β-C₁₂G₂).  Preferred interactions or possible complexation between the titanium atoms of a Ti precursor and maltose headgroups of maltoside surfactant should have two favorable effects. First, complexation inhibits fast hydrolysis and condensation, thus promoting homogeneous incorporation of titania.  Second, complexation with the surfactant fixes titanium at the micelle surface, allowing it to be incorporated selectively only at the micelle/silica interface. To promote well-ordered materials and to allow control over titania site density, a mixed surfactant system of β-C₁₂G₂ and the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (C₁₆TAB) is used for pore templating.  Ordered hexagonal mesoporous silica-titania mixed oxide thin films are synthesized by a solvent evaporation-driven self-assembly method.  The final mesostructure of the mixed oxide films are predicted from a ternary phase diagram of C₁₆TAB/ β-C₁₂G₂ / water (developed earlier) by replacing the volume of water with an equivalent volume of silica and titania. A series of films with predictable mesostructures are synthesized with different amount titanium loading by employing a 1:1 molar ratio of β-C₁₂G₂ to titanium precursor.  The degrees of homogeneity (indicated by tetracoordinated Ti) in these films are compared with that of films synthesized with same loading of titanium but without any β-C₁₂G₂ surfactant.  The titanium in films synthesized with utilization of transition metal-carbohydrate complexation is highly dispersed, while site isolated titanium atoms with octahedral coordination and/or uncontrolled segregation of titania in silica support occurs without sugar-based surfactant. Silica-titania mixed oxide mesoporous films are characterized here by UV-vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffractometry (XRD), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).