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Documentation on writing HTML

Accessibility

One of the few things we ask in return for hosting your website on FLORA is that you ensure that your site is accessible. Ensuring freedom of choice in things like Operating Systems and Browsers is part of the FLORA mission, as well as trying to keep the Web as accessible to people with low-income (IE: Smaller computers), the visually impaired (Who "listen to" pages with browsers such as Lynx), and so on. If you need help in making your site accessable, please ask for help.

Viewable With Any Browser - this site contains a very good style guide which is very recommended for all web designers (FLORA or otherwise) to adopt for their site design.
Bobby

Advanced features

A number of advanced features are available to web managers, including includes, PHP and databases. If you need these features please contact Russell McOrmond to have them enabled for your area. The FLORA Server project pages have more details about the Web server. Questions and answers can be read as part of flora.admin.help from the Helpdesk.

PHP version 3 is enabled in Safe mode
- A local consulting company hosted on the FLORA servers has a resources page with some example scripts.
- PHP Tutorials including a Perl to PHP Migration for those who are familiar with PERL CGI's and want to move these to work on FLORA (Flora does not allow regular users to install CGI software due to security issues).
- PHPBuilder which includes a database of sample routines.
- PHPWizard which includes more tutorials, examples and some more advanced applications (Database administration). FLORA already has phpMyAdmin installed.
Server-side Includes allow one to include various information/variables automatically in their pages (Functionality also offered by PHP, but some scripts may already be written for server-side includes).
Databases: Both the MySQL and PostgreSQL servers are installed.

Use of META tags/etc to increase searchability

Notes from W3C on meta tags/etc, and includes information on "robots.txt" file.
Documentation from go.com
And of course, a list of The_Major_Search_Engines for you to submit your site to.

HTML Validators

W3's validator information
Doctor HTML - spellcheck a web page, test document and table structure, plus additional tests.
weblint : a lint-like syntax and style checker for html (Written in Perl).
htmlchek - a syntax checker for HTML, similar to weblint.
MOMspider: a web robot which checks validity of links.
HTML Tidy - Tidy Online is a Web-enabled version of Dave Raggett's Tidy, a utility to clean up and fix errors in HTML pages.

Downloading and Using ws_ftp

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