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HTML Code Rules

The following HTML coding rules have been used to construct the pages of this site.

1. All attribute values have quotes around them;
2. All attribute values are in lower case;
3. All tags are in uppercase ;
4. All site directory and filenames are in lower case;
5. The site is broken into logical sub-directories;
6. Every directory has a default index.htm file;
7. All comments do not contain -- or >;
8. URL references to pages within this site are relative;
9. URL references to different sites are absolute;
10. Main pages within sub-directories are called index.htm so they can be referenced by just the directory name and a trailing /;
11. No Frames are used;
12. All pages have a meaningful <TITLE> and <H1> tags to aid search engine indexing;
13. All pages have meaningful <META NAME="description"> and <META NAME="keywords"> content to aid search engine indexing;
14. All images have meaningful ALT text to aid search engine indexing;
15. All images have meaningful ALT text to aid readability in text only browsers;
16. All entity and attribute names are in upper case;
17. Page layout is not screen size dependant;
18. Linked images have no border;
19. Links to other pages within this site or externally just go there. Opening additional browser windows with the TARGET attribute is not used;
20. The HTML code is commented;
21. Useless characters and tags are removed;
22. The HEAD section of the page contains a LINK tag for emailing the author;
23. Tables do not have hard coded pixel widths;
24. Tables do have percentages as widths to influence the page layout;
25. Tables are not used to layout entire pages;
26. Tables have summary information to describe their purpose;
27. Tables use <COLGROUP>, <THEAD>, <TFOOT>, and <TBODY>;

Cascading Style Sheet Rules

The following CSS rules have been used to construct this site.

1. External Cascading Style Sheets are used, linked to the individual pages;
2. Classes of style are defined for different parts of the pages, to give a consistent and easilt modifiable look and feel to the site;
3. One single cascading style sheet is used for all pages on the site;
4. No more than three fonts are used, one for headings, one for body text and one for special text like computer code;
5. Alternate fonts are listed for classes of text, always in the same order;
6. Absolute font sizes are not used;
7. The !important attribute is not used;

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