<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.
<p>
<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.
<p>
<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 $$$emphend.
You may use predefined variables (see
$
(ref1
)varspecial$
(ref2
)varspecial
>$title_varspecial</a
>), or
define your
own (by the command
$(ref1)cmdlist_let_&cmd_choose=all$(ref2)cmdlist_let_>!set</a>).
<p>
And a wims command is a word preceeded by the character $emph !$emphend, <b>
when it appears at the beginning of a line
</b
>. The
list of commands
as well as their syntax can be found
$(ref1)cmdlist$(ref2)cmdlist>here</a> in this document.
<p>
<li>If you want your page to be visible by the (future) wims
search engine
, please
copy a template
file (<a href=modules/light/template.en.phtml>English</a> or
<a href
=modules
/light
/template
.fr
.phtml
>French
</a
> version
), modify the
header according to your case, and put in the body of your html content.
<p>
<li
>You can also
copy (the source of
) an existing phtml
file, study its
structure
, modify it to suit you
(if the copyright policy of that
file allows you to do so). Please browse
<a href=modules/>the modules directory</a> which contains sources of all the
modules (as well as light phtml files).
<p>
<li
>When you think that your phtml page is ready
, send a
mail to the site manager
, asking him to transfer your page from the test server to the public wims server.
<p>
<li>Once your page appears on the public site, you may put links from anywhere
pointing to it, and/or submit its address to search engines.
<p>
</ol>
<p><hr> <p>
<center><h3>Important notes</h3></center>
<p
>When writing a phtml
file, please take care of the following
. <ol>
<li
>You may adapt any html
file composed by any html composer to a phtml
file. But once your
file contains any wims commands
, you should no longuer
use html composers to modify it. Because WIMS only recognizes commands at
the beginning of a line, while most html composers will reformat the lines
of your
file. Use an ordinary text editor instead
. <p>
<li
>If your
file originally contains the dollar sign
$emph$$$emphend other
than as a wims variable introducer, double them. Otherwise your dollar sign
will probably disappear in the visitors' browsers.
<p>
<li>Make sure that no line starts with $emph !$emphend or $emph:$emphend,
other than for wims purposes.
</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>.