GUIDELINES FOR WEB PAGES HOSTED AT QUEER RESOURCES DIRECTORY (QRD)
Last Revised: 11 March 1996
URL: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/qrdinfo/web.guidelines
To get an FTP account in the QRD just telnet to mother.qrd.org and login as
'apply' [no quotes].
Any questions should be sent to wwwstaff@qrd.org.
PLACEMENT
All QRD Web pages will be stored under the qrd/www section of the QRD tree
HTML COMPOSITION:
Refer to http://www.ling.nwu.edu/~sburke/html/ and also
note these restrictions:
You must sign and date all of your pages, by putting this at
absolute bottom of every page:
yourname@yourdomain.com, 11 Thismonth 1996
for example, see /qrd/www/youth/tremblay/
You may not use any inline gifs/jpegs over 25K in size.
You may not use imagemaps.
You may not use more than 50K total of inlines on a page, or more
than seven.
You may not use a counter under any circumstances.
You may not ever ever ever use Microsoft Internet Assistant to
produce your HTML. This product produces code so defective
as to break a good number of the browsers on the Internet.
All inlines should have WIDTH and HEIGHT declared, as specified in the
Netscape spec, available at
http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html
Make sure your pages pass the HTML Validation Service tests.
The URL is http://www.halsoft.com/html-val-svc/
UPLOADING
The usual process is that you will design your web pages on your local machine.
When you are happy with them, upload them to the QRD.
Before creating your own directories under QRD/www, get confirmation from
wwwstaff@qrd.org.
You must get the approval of wwwstaff@qrd.org before you
delete/overwrite any web page not in your /qrd/www/ directory.
We will deal very harshly with anyone who does not get such approval.
IMAGES
Inline image source files [*.gif] should be in the same directory
as your html files. You can also link to any of the many images available in
the "/qrd/www/images' directory.
All inlines should also have ALT declared, either as meaningful text,
or as "".
BACKGROUNDS and ICONS
There are a large number of very useful icons and backgrounds that people use
in their web pages in the "/qrd/www/images/backgrounds/" for backgrounds and
"/qrd/www/images/icons/" for icons and "/qrd/www/images/dot/" for bullets.
You are free to use these inlines as you wish. Do not copy them into your
subdirectory -- simply point to them.
RELEASE
When your web pages are ready to be incorporated into the QRD and made
accessible to the rest of the world, contact wwwstaff@qrd.org and tell them.
CAVEATS and STYLISTIC POINTS
We may correct HTML-coding errors on your pages. Anyone who does
so will notify you. If you have been notified that a bug in your
page was changed, download it and use the fixed version. Next time
you want to change the page, do not just upload a change to the
previous version that you uploaded, thus overwriting the bug fixes.
Your pages should all have at least one reference to the QRD home page, which
is "/qrd/". Try NOT to refer to 'http://www.qrd.org/[path]'. You must
use RELATIVE URL's, like '/qrd/www/world/index.html' to refer to the World
Page, for example, as opposed to 'http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/world/index.html'
If the QRD contains material relevent to the subject of your pages, you
should include a link to that material.
THE INDEX FILE
See http://www.ling.nwu.edu/~sburke/html/idxtrk.html for info on the
behavior of the index.html file. Note, however, that index.html files (for
complicated reasons) are not indexed by the QRD's search engine. What we
suggest is having us create a symbolic link from index.html to main.html in
your web directory. Your mainpage would then be called main.html, but will
be indexed by the QRD's search engine, and will behave like an index.html
file.
TEMPLATE
There is a template which you may use for creating your pages, at
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/template.html
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Written by Sean M. Burke
Revised/Modified by Ron Buckmire and Sean M. Burke