Publishing on the Informatics Server

These documents detail the online publishing system for the School of Informatics Web Server. From here you can find information on editing pages, on viewing their change history, and details on some of the procedures and tools used in creating this site.

Some details of the new look www.inf.ed.ac.uk of September 2006.

Typically only staff will need publishing access to the Informatics Web Server. Users wishing to update/create personal web pages, should read the Homepages Server documentation.

Documentation for page authors

• A rough guide ... Details of the hows and whys of publishing on this site. Currently a work in progress.
• Editing files with Mozilla/Netscape Composer How to use Mozilla/Netscape's Composer to edit files on the Informatics site (Note that Composer's HTML editing tools have a number of problems, and do not come with any recommendation, or guarantee of support).
• Editing and Managing with CVS CVS is the most powerful of the editing tools available, and is the only one recommended for undertaking any form of large scale site maintenance
• Why we do things the way we do, ie CVS and validation.
• FAQ Currently rather short list of Fequently Asked Questions.
• An external link to Common Validator Problems.

Tools on this site

Change Information An interface to the revision history and change logs of all of the human editable files on this site.
ssiexpand and ssireduce Scripts to expand and reduce the standard #includes in School web pages. Useful for checking web pages before uploading to the server.
Local Mirror of validator.w3.org.