Modifying EP Group web pages
About the website
- The website uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to help ensure that pages created by different authors have a more consistent look.
- Pages are created on the fly with PHP (no Java or JavaScript used). The website template which all main web pages are based on includes a navigation bar.
- You have been given read/write access to the directories and files that you have been assigned to allow you to update your web pages at your own time. Symlinks are not allowed from your user area to ensure that our website is not affected by any home file-system difficulties.
Source web pages are now accessible by executing the
webshell
script from your desktop. On running the
webshell
script, the web server's home area will be mounted on your desktop and you will be placed directly in the
$WEBROOT (/home/webmain/html)
directory. When you exit from that shell, it is automatically unmounted. This leaves the web server to do its main job of serving web pages.
How to make changes
You can make use of your favourite web page editor (e.g. Mozilla / WebMonkey Composer, Frontpage, etc.) but please note the following:
For external pages
<a target="_blank" href="http://atlasinfo.cern.ch/Atlas/public/Welcome.html"></a>
If you want to add
.php
files, you need to let me know as I maintain a control list of allowed pages.
In web pages with or without the website template, images are specified with its location relative to the current page. For example:
<img src="path/relative/to/current/page/picture.jpg" alt="DESCRIPTION_OF_PICTURE" />
For accessibility, most images have been given the
ALT
tag. If modifying/replacing any pages, do remember to include the
ALT
tag.
Tips
- When using the website template, keep web pages simple and avoid using tables as layout mechanisms.
- Avoid using more colours than necessary.... No flashing text please!
- Avoid spam by encoding your e-mail address. Try out the CERN e-mail encoder.
- Avoid JavaScript in your webpages.
- Java is not permitted.
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ChunLikTan - 09 Feb 2010
Topic revision: r2 - 09 Feb 2010 - _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61chun_32lik_32tan