Development Notes
Browser Support
Our browser standard on campus is Mozilla Firefox. Please make
sure your pages work on the widest internal audience possible.
PHP and ASP
Our web server supports PHP and
ASP (JS and VS) scripting. Web Services offers development services
for dynamic applications. However, no debugging support is
provided for scripts developed outside the IS group. CGI scripts
CGI scripts development is not generally accessible by Web page
authors. If you have a need to write a CGI script, please contact
Web Services or Systems to discuss the possibilities.
Server-Parsed HTML
Use of parsed html is allowed with the exception of the exec tag.
Files must be named with a .shtml extension to be recognized by the server
as parsed html.
META tags
To aid indexing and searching of pages, the inclusion of meta
tags is encouraged in all pages and required in official pages.
These are put between the <head>
tags.
Example:
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="The official home page of Kalamazoo College,
a prestigious, liberal arts institution in Kalamazoo, Michigan">
<META NAME="keywords" CONENT="Kalamazoo, Kalimazoo, college, university,
liberal arts,study abroad, career, intern, foreign, over seas">
Index Pages
Directories should have index pages. To be recognized as an index
page, the page must have one of the following names: index.html,
home.html, index.shtml, home.shtml, index.htm. Directories on
the public web server without index pages will
give browsers a “server error”,
not a listing of the directory contents.
Symbolic Links
The Web server will not follow Unix symbolic links.
E-mail Forms
A program for mailing form data is available. See How to Create a Self-mailer Form on a K Web Site Using formmail.php Cgiemail
is no longer supported.
Tilde (~)
The tilde (~) has historically been required in a URL referring
to personal web site files. However, we have noticed problems updating such
URLS in Dreamweaver. If you are experiencing problems uploading files to your
personal site using Dreamweaver, please contact the help desk to discuss your
options.
WebTrends
Statistics on Web usage and other analyses of the College's Web site, such as
listings of broken links, may be requested from Web Services. |