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2016-12-25 - Though these notes were researched when Compiled Website was live, they are universal.

See also:

• Search engine optimization (SEO)

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1. After various validations pass, and I hand-check things according to anybrowser, add the following into the footer:
   <a href="https://anybrowser.org/campaign/">Viewable With Your Favorite Browser</a>

   • Later, write an essay on this topic and link to it from the footer, and instead link to anybrowser.org from the essay.

2. RSS

   • https://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/
   • http://rss.scripting.com/
   • http://www.feedvalidator.org/

HTML ∞

• HTML Tidy

HTML Validation ∞

• Web Design Group (WDG) HTML Validator

  • (check example.com)

w3.org ∞

https://validator.w3.org/

• https://validator.w3.org/source/
• https://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html

• check example.com

<a href="https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">
<img
src="i/valid-xhtml10.png"
alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional"
height="31"
width="88"
/>
</a>

CSS validation ∞

• https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

  • check example.com

Link checking ∞

w3

• download

• online

I don't understand why their checker doesn't allow checking of its own links, probably for traffic reasons. I have no robots.txt disallow for them.

check example.com

JavaScript checking ∞

See JavaScript for the list of features used with it.

My knowledge of JavaScript is sorely lacking. There are a few things I've copied from elsewhere which are pretty critical which are not standards-compliant. I just don't know enough to fix or replace what I'm doing..

A HREF function-links ∞

JavaScript function-links are not actually valid. I've tried all sorts of stuff, but the best I can do is to wrap such things inside of <script type="text/javascript"> so that it'll only appear when JavaScript is enabled. Example link:

<a href="javascript:toggle('styles')">

To fix the validation issue, I started doing:

<a accesskey="t" href="/javascript.html#s0" onClick="javascript:toggle('styles');return false">Styles</a>

.. this forces me to have the link though. While this isn't really what I wanted, it does give an opportunity to link to another page explaining what JavaScript would have allowed the user to do.

Using HTML with document.write ∞

JavaScript document.write technically shouldn't have HTML opening tags within it. HTML Tidy will escape any forward slashes in opening tags, ruining the code. I've never found a way around this. If I put only ending HTML tags inside the JavaScript - which is valid - and the other text outside, I still get validation errors. I have found no way around this.

Example code:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
  var heredoc = (<r><![CDATA[
    <p>some example text</p>
  ]]></r>).toString();
  document.write(heredoc);
//--></script>
<noscript>
</noscript>

robots.txt checkers ∞

• Robots exclusion standard

• https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

-

• https://web.archive.org/web/20201023165946/http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130805085933/http://www.invision-graphics.com/robotstxt_validator.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120709084554/http://www.targetable.com:80/scripts/robotstxt.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20201023165946/http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml

Specific to hosts

• Google - Webmaster Tools

  • See answer 156449
• .. check your own host to see if they have tools.

Notes on specific robots ∞

Internet Archive:

• https://archive.org/
• info: https://web.archive.org/web/20200424140256/https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/200450194

• User-agent: ia_archiver

Google:

• https://www.google.com/, https://www.google.com/imghp, https://www.google.com/videohp, etc: https://about.google/intl/en/products/
• https://search.aol.com/, https://search.aol.com/aol/imagehome, https://www.aol.com/video/
• info: Googlebot
• I can't find direct information, try around here: 8456
• submit: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

• User-agent: Googlebot

Microsoft / Yahoo [ 3 ] :

• www.bing.com / live.com

• https://www.yahoo.com/ [ 4 ]

  • Yahoo! Directory was retired.

• info: Msnbot

  • I can't even give a direct URL to official information on it.
• submit: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/about [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

• User-agent: msnbot [ 7 ]

Sitemap ∞

• Sitemaps

• https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/overview [ 8 ]

In robots.txt, add something like:

Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml

Multiple lines for multiple sitemaps is allowed.

RSS ∞

(RSS)

(Not implemented yet)

Server ∞

Since this engine doesn't really care about the functionality of the server, I don't have much to say about it.

Misc. notes:

• Custom error documents
• Logging and statistics

• Security settings

Email ∞

I'm not using self-hosted email right now.

Last updated 2022-12-24 at 06:24:02

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