Author Guidelines

This document outline the guidelines that authors should follow when writing new articles for dev-archive.net

Tina Holmboe

The character set used is UTF-8.
The markup language used is XHTML 1.1. We transform it to HTML 4.01 Strict during the publication process.
All code must be well-formed - this is paramount, as the XSLT processing used will not accept anything else - syntactically, and semantically correct.
All instances of "..." should be encoded as …, that is "…"
"foo - bar" should be encoded as "foo — bar", that is "foo — bar".
"foo-bar" should be encoded as "foo–bar", that is "foo–bar"
"quote" should be encoded as “quote”, that is “quote”
"It's" should be encoded as "It’", that is "It’s"
Links are written as <a href="..."><span class="hyperLink">...</span></a>
References to external documents should be written as in this example: <li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq"> <span class="hyperLink"> HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions</span></a> —— W3C; July 2004.</li>
Date and timestamps should be written either on the long form Wednesday, 23^rd of May 20007, 11:13 GMT, or on the short form 23^rd May 2007. These correspond to the Wmake functions <wmake type="function" name="longEnglish"></wmake> and <wmake type="function" name="shortEnglish"></wmake> respectively.
Images for decoration in text should be treated in the following manner: using Gimp, select Script-Fu, Decor, Rounded Corners. Edge Radius=15, Add Drop Shadow=true, Shadow X-Offset=8, Shadow Y-Offset=8, Blur Radius=15, Add Background=true. Convert to greyscale, and scale to no more than 120px width.