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Notes on The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web by Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham

1. "General wiki convention favors the singular form for a page name, unless the plural makes the intended meaning clearer." - p. 104
2. "It is distinctly helpful to always have the top page of the wiki only a click away. We therefore recommend that either the template page or the generated header/footer section contain an explicit link to the top page as a navigational aid. . ." - p. 106
3. consider reinserting spaces when rendering page anchors
4. "If you intend to be serious about using CSS, an excellent book as both tutorial and reference guide is Cascading Style Sheets, Designing for the Web, by Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos (Addison-Wesley, 2e, 1999). Comprehensive CSS resources are also available from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (www.w3c.org)." - p. 151
5. "Even though it is easy to make the logo graphic a clickable link to the default page, we caution you to avoid this, at least as the only option; studies consistently show that users often ignore graphics on a Web page and prefer to navigate using text anchors." - p. 190
6. "Use an inline "heading" to create a "last modified here" target or any other kind of special quick-find location marker. The generated link is always at the top of the page, easily seen and used." - p. 193
7. "The access control file .htaccess can do more than simply define user access. You can place most server directives there, thus, for example, specifying the Files and SetHandler that a particular file is an executable perl script. That way you have more precise control than simply marking the directory as executable. At most a single once-only change in the server configuration is needed to implement this kind of flexibility." - p. 280

Recommended Books:

• Perl
  • Perl in a Nutshell
  • Learning Perl
• Apache
  • Apache: The Definitive Guide
• CSS
  • Cascading Style Sheets, Designing for the Web
• Python
  • Programming Python
  • Learning Python
• Ruby
  • Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
• Groupware
  • Practical Internet Groupware
• SGML
  • SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language
  • SGML and HTML Explained