FAQ

How can I contribute?

Very simple! You can register yourself in the forum, so that you have write access in the forum and the main frame. Thus you can publish an unfinished project and look out for help or contribute your work. We accept however only free art - these are works, which may be distributed free of charge.

How can I publish my works on the main frame?

First of all, register yourself in the forum or contact one of our administrators. Afterwards you can contribute works or messages by using your nickname and password.

I do not understand the licenses. Which is for what?

Here a small overview:

Name	¹	²	³	⁴	⁵	Usual Works
¹ = Can the name of the author be omitted when distributing?
² = Can someone "make money" with your work?
³ = Can someone change the content / form of your work?
⁴ = Can someone licence a derived work (the original is yours) under another license?
⁵ = Does a transparent source have to be published?
CC by	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Everything
CC by-sa	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Everything
CC by-nc	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Everything
CC by-nd	No	Yes	No	No	No	Everything
CC by-nc-sa	No	No	Yes	No	No	Everything
CC by-nc-nd	No	No	No	No	No	Everything
LGPL	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Program libraries
GPL	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Programs, eventually everything
GFDL	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Documents, everything with teaching value

What is a project page?

Whenever it is desired to add more detailed information to a work, you can create a project page, which is a composition of a navigation frame with links and content pages.Nearly all XHML-strict-tags are allowed. The following character-strings however are replaced when loading the page:

%s
Used mainly when writing the navigation.xml in order to point at your content pages. Write %s[HTML-Filename]
%g
This will be replaced by the project directory, in which graphics, applets, etc. (everything, but not the content pages) are saved.

Altogether, there exist several special files:

navigation.xml
This is the navigation bar. You start in a <p> environment, so that you do not need a <html>, <body>, etc. tag.
id
A small file that only contains the title of your homepage. It is a simle charakter string without HTML
header.xml
Here you can insert all tags which must be written in the <head> section. (without opening or closing head) Please do not use the <title> tag! Otherwise, <meta> <script>, <style>, etc. are allowed.
HTML Content Pages
You begin this file with <-- Titel --> in the first line for the title of this page - so do not use h1, etc. Hiere you are in a <p> environment, so do not open / close html, body, etc.

[ Now a example for some valid links: ]

<p>

<ol>

	<li><a href="%smainsite.htm">Main Frame</a></li>

</ol>

</p>

<img href="%gbildl.png" />

When you want link to

mainsite.html

, which is in the root directory, then you have to write a "%s" before the filename.
If you want to insert objects like images, flash files or music files, then write "%g" instead "%s". For anybody, who is interested in details: "%g" will be replaced with a exact URL, e.g. you link to the actual object. With "%s" you link to DevWork, so that /dev/work will load the object in the main frame. To resume: Link with "%s" to HTML-pages, with "%g" to everything else. The content page can again contain links with these special character strings. Consider, that "%s" will point to the directory, in which your "navigation.xml" is. You must not provide a link containing

".."

I want a project page, but I cannot write HTML or I cannot follow the example above

No Problem. You can send me par example a text document - an OpenOffice or Word File. With any standard word processor you can write your text easily, insert your pictures per mouse click and design the page in the order, in which the page shall be displayed. Thus I do quasi only need to know where you want to put your stuff - the rest is done by us - if we have time ;-).

I am looking forward to have a homepage

This problem we can solve.
People without any computer-scientific knowledge can obtain a homepage hosted by /dev/work. 333trunks's project is already hosted by us.
Instead of project pages, you can create your personal homepages.
Who has no knowledge in HTML, CSS, etc, can create a text document (OpenOffice, Word. etc.) with images and a nice layout. But consider to create the following files:

1 Navigation Frame (for MoD, this is the left bar on the page)
1 Main Frame (Greetings, etc. this is the first page that will be loaded when a guest visits your homepage)
several content pages.

Please send these pages to one of our administrators.

The login is not working!

You have to activate cookies in order to login correctly. We do only use cookies for the login, so it is safe to configure your browser in the manner that it accepts Sessioncookies from our site.

I do not understand the term "Source"

"Source" is a special kind of publishing the work. For a program, this is the sourcecode, e.g. a text written in program code. You should always publish along with your actual work your work in a standard open file-format - so you can provide along your text some sources. For example, when you publish a Word-Document, consider that not everybody van open the .doc file. If you paint an image with a image program, publish both a conventional format like jpg or png and the standard format of your program (gimp can save native .xcf files). In general, provide a file format which is convenient for users to edit your work.

Can I insert links or images in my contributions?

Have a look at the BB-Manual

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