Technical Description

The following sections describe the technical background of the author's web pages, from basic design principles over descriptions of how certain visual details have been created up to the implementation of "HTML Wrapping" and other tools to simplify the construction of new web pages.

Please, also consider my "Hints for Reading" and the "List of Recent Changes".

Overview

The list of topics given below directly guides you to the desired information - just click on a topic of your choice:

• Design Criteria - basic style principles
   
• Style Sheet - details of the author's CSS settings
• Basic Structure of most web pages
• AOLPress - WYSIWYG editing of HTML documents
• Elements - graphical elements within a web page
• Images - embedding of sketches, screen snapshots, scanned images and digital photos
• DirTree - (manual) visualization of directory structures
   
• HTML Wrapping - the automatic application of a "common style" to every web page
• Templates - semi-automatic construction of new web pages
• DirTree - automatic visualization of directory structures
• Packaging - automatic creation of ZIP archives
• Upload - automatic upload of modified files