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From: cctalk-bounces at
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jim Battle
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:32 AM
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Subject:
www.wang2200.org now online
After five years of accreting information into my Wang 2200
web site, Jay's generous hosting offer prodded me into
action. I've revamped my web site and put everything under a
new domain name:
http://www.wang2200.org/
I've used xenu (
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) to
verify all of my links, but with 21 web pages that got
converted, I could have messed up in any number of ways. If
you visit and spot anything weird, please let me know. If
you are still using netscape 4, sorry, the pages will look
pretty bad because I'm using css to style the pages now.
I've tested it under firefox, ie 6, and opera 8. The pages
were designed to assume a minimum screen width of 800 pixels.
Since the discussion came up on this list a few weeks ago,
here is how I put my pages together. First I played around
with one page and css until I was more familiar with css and
had a "look" that was OK. I then converted each page, by
hand, to using css and removing tables wherever they weren't
necessary. Each page was validated against the w3c xhtml
validator. There was still a lot of common code in all of
these pages, so I wrote a perl script that reads in a
"schema", containing a template plus a list of pages to apply
the template to. Each page is processed and emitted to final
directory. This way I can, say, change the navigation menu
in the schema and it will get automatically updated in all
the 21 pages that have a menu. This perl script also
provides for subroutines and variable substitution so that I
can define, say, a color in one place and my css and html
pages can reference the variable and all get updated with the
one color value. It took a couple evenings to write but I'm
happy I spent the time.
Thanks again Jay.
Congratulations on the new site. I really like the new look. Very well
organized and clean.
I think I've found the template for my next major site revamp! ;-)
david.