Guide to the Bates Website

Helpful Info

To view the XML of a published page using Internet Explorer: type the URL followed by ?tfrm=4

Only works in Internet Explorer! For example:
http://www.bates.edu/for-alumni.xml?tfrm=4

Online references

Help is on the way

Site: Description: URL
HTML/XHTML
Liberty! Equality! Validity! Eric Meyer on "How to build a good, solid web house" http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/validate/
Better living thru XHMTL Why XHTML is better than HTML http://www.alistapart.com/stories/betterliving/
A Simple Character Entity Chart Character entities for ampersands, emdashes, etc http://www.evolt.org/article/ala/17/21234/
Modifying Dreamweaver 4 to write XHTML How to configure Dreamweaver so that it writes XHTML http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/xhtml/tips.html#dreamweaver
 
XML/XSL
Microsoft Library   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/xsd_dev_410l.asp
Top XML XSLT Reference http://www.vbxml.com/xsl/XSLTRef.asp
XSL Snippet Central Code snippets http://www.vbxml.com/snippetcentral/
Database-->XML conversion Using XML Spy software to convert a Microsoft Access file to XML (thus it follows you can convert a Filemaker or Excel file to XML). http://www.xmlspy.com/features_convert.html
     
     
 
CSS
CSS/Edge Cutting edge CSS from the guy who wrote the book (the book with the fish, that is) http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
A List Apart For people who make websites http://www.alistapart.com
The Web Standards Project Why standards matter http://www.webstandards.org/