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There are a few precautions you must observe to ensure the site
is usable on all platforms and in situations beyond the web-server,
such as when loaded onto a laptop for a trade show demonstration. Here
are the precautions:
- CVS folders
- The folders in each directory called
CVS contain important version control information that is
automatically generated. You should not remove these folders or edit
their contents by hand.
- No Symbolic Links
- UNIX developers may be tempted to create
symbolic links between files. To assure that developers (and web
servers) on non-UNIX platforms can work with the
project, do not create symbolic links in your working copy of
the site. If you do create symbolic links and upload them to the site
repository, they will be silently ignored.
- Naming Conventions
- As mentioned in our Guidelines
for
Projects, limit filenames to the Macintosh-friendly
length of 32 characters. Do not use MiXEd-cAsE,
under__scored, or Capitalized names for files or
folders. Use a simple-hyphen to separate
multi-word-filenames.
- Relative URL's
- Within any
HTML/hyperlinks you create,
use relative URL addresses (such as
../classes/cvs-101.html) which do not begin with an absolute
path. Absolute URL addresses
(/school/classes/cvs-101.html) are much pickier about where
and how they are served, and make it difficult to port our web
projects onto other computers.
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