Literascape: Style Guide

I will forget the grass of my mother's lawn
I know I will
I will forget the old telephone number
Fitzroy seven eight two oh
I will forget my style
I will have no style

-- Leonard Cohen

This style guide gives the basic formatting requirements for all documents to be placed on the Literascape Server.

All documents should be written for both Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers. All documents should be downwards compatible for Lynx and text-only browsers

HTML page code should follow the most current accepted specifications. The following points are worthy of note:

image file extensions (.GIF .JPG) are ALWAYS upper case
document extensions (.htm or .html) are ALWAYS lower case
directories names begin with a capital (i.e. Folder)
file names are lower case (i.e. index.html)
directory and file names should be as short as possible
all image files must have ALT descriptions
all image files must have size specifications
all html pages must have "META" tags
proper close tags must be included
each section of the document should be marked by a comment tag

Many on-line tutorials are available. Check out the Netscape guide to Creating Net Sites, or the W3 Consortium's HTML pages.

On-line code checking is available from The HTML Doctor and WebTechs Validations Service.

Mac developers are encouraged to use BBedit. A fine program which is upgraded almost as fast as the web changes.