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This website is the result of multiple changes over approx
10 years.
- Created in 1994. Hand-coded in HTML. Hosted by AIT/AUT
- Relocated in 1996 to Landcare Research.
- Redesigned in 1998 to use SSL and bright colours.
- Relocated in 1999 to ihug. SSL code reverts to static.
- Relocated in 2003 to Force9 in the United Kingdom, and placed in
it's own domain
- Redesigned in April 2004. Pastel colours and simple navigation.
Coded in Netscape Communicatior, leaning heavily on HTML code
- Problems with the tabbing system (adding new pages is too
annoying) lead to creation of a perl management engine.
Engine components
buildme.pl - the code
that merges
content files with left-side index panel. Writes files to disk and then
uploads them to the production website.index.xml - contains
the data for
the structure of the site.
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<index>
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wrap the whole thing in a
single tag. Try to make this good XML
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<item> |
wraps up a whole entry |
<filename>
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Every file has a name. To
get the source you append .content, to get the webpage
you append .html
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<label>
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The displayed link text, and
page header for this filename
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<ord>
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The order in the index.xml
file is arbitrary, but you can sort into your chosen order. These are numbers, decimal points permitted
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<parent>
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To avoid cluttering the
menu, some entries can be sub-entries for others, which aren't shown if
not related
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<nocode>
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Setting nocode to true stops
this item being generated by this script, but the menu still points to
it
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<noind>
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Setting noind to true stops
it being displayed as a menu item unless you link to it elsewhere
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TEMPLATE.html - Contains all the code that isn't
menu or content. The background, stylesheet, table, copyright notice.
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