<p>
The following is the things you should check.
<ol>
<li>Find a wims site, verify the
<a href="html/policy.html">site policy</a> or contact the site manager,
to see whether they are interested in carrying your page. <p>
If the site has a test server, you may also ask the site manager to give you
a test account. This will allow you to submit and test your draft pages
repeatedly, at a very high frequency.
<p>
The home site wims.unice.fr contains such a test server which welcomes all
people desirous of writing mathematical pages. But connection
might be slow for non-European users.
</li><li>Connect to to the test server (from your browser), submit your (existing)
html
file into it
, and make a http request
for the page
, to see thether it
is there.
Then add some mathematical symbols, wims variables and commands into your
file, resubmit it
, and reload your page to see whether it works
. If you
make an error, wims server will
directly send error messages to your browser. Continue this way until everything
seems OK for you.
<p>
You have only to submit your html
file which requires wims services
. Graphics
files, may stay where they were, on your original site. But you
should make sure that the
file you submitted to wims site contains only
links to absolute addresses.
</li><li> Please
read the corresponding chapters of the technical reference of this document
to see how to add variables and commands into your
file. <p
> Briefly, a variable is a word preceeded by the dollar sign $emph $$$emphend.
You may use predefined variables (see
$(ref1)varspecial$(ref2)varspecial">$title_varspecial</a>), or define your
own (by the command
$(ref1)cmdlist_let_&+cmd_choose=all$(ref2)cmdlist_let_">!set</a>).
<p>
And a wims command is a word preceeded by the character $emph !$emphend, <b>
when it appears at the beginning of a line
</b
>. The
list of commands
as well as their syntax can be found
$(ref1)cmdlist$(ref2)cmdlist">here</a> in this document.
</li><li>If you want your page to be visible by the (future) wims
search engine, please copy a template file
(<a href="modules/light/template.en.phtml">English</a> or
<a href="modules/light/template.fr.phtml">French</a> version), modify the header
according to your case, and put in the body of your html content.
</li><li>You can also copy (the source of) an existing phtml file, study its
structure, modify it to suit you (if the copyright policy of that file
allows you to do so). Please browse
<a href="modules/">the modules directory</a> which contains sources of all the
modules (as well as light phtml files).
</li><li>When you think that your phtml page is ready, send a mail to the site manager,
asking him to transfer your page from the test server to the public wims server.
</li><li>Once your page appears on the public site, you may put links from anywhere
pointing to it, and/or submit its address to search engines.
</li>
</ol>
<p><hr/></p>
<center><h3>Important notes</h3></center>
<p>When writing a phtml file, please take care of the following.
<ol>
<li>You may adapt any html file composed by any html composer to a phtml
file. But once your file contains any wims commands, you should no longuer
use html composers to modify it. Because WIMS only recognizes commands at
the beginning of a line, while most html composers will reformat the lines
of your file. Use an ordinary text editor instead.
</li><li>If your file originally contains the dollar sign $emph$$$emphend other
than as a wims variable introducer, double them. Otherwise your dollar sign
will probably disappear in the visitors' browsers.
</li><li>Make sure that no line starts with $emph !$emphend or $emph:$emphend,
other than for wims purposes.
</li>
</ol>
<hr/>
I have yet to find time to write a detailed tutorial for how to use each
feature provided by wims server. If you have a question, please
!mailurl xiao@unice.fr write me
or check the
<a href="http://www.listes.cri74.org/wws/info/wims">WIMS mailing list</a>.