Arts and Sciences
Writing Webpages


UNDER REVISION & RECONSTRUCTION

Principles of Writing Web Pages in the SCA

Basic principle - KISS

The KISS principle - Keep It Stupidly Simple !
The first principle of writing any webpages in the SCA is to recognise that the information needs to be set out precisely, yet with enough explanation to make it clear and simple to understand. Many times, it is the novice that reads the pages trying to see what the heck this is all about!
To make it clear and simple, the following conditions need to be met as much as possible.

  • Keep the html code as small and as simple as possible
  • Keep a simple layout
  • Avoid Javascript as much as possible
  • Avoid browser specific or Operating System specific bells and whistles
  • Macke shure ur spellling iz corrrect!
  • Use templates for each page
  • Don't embed sound
  • Revise, revise, revise!

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    Keep the html code as small and as simple as possible
    Do this so that you and others can come along sometime down the track and easily revise the content. If you obscure the code to make it deliberately difficult to protect your 'tricks' or gimmicks or even to prevent it being tampered with by someone else, then you have missed the point of writing for the web entirely!

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    UNDER REVISION 18Oct09
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