How to write WWW pages?

These are the basic building blocks of the world wide web: HTML and CGI. You will find a short description of the different topics below, but take care: normally, you can only use HTML for your pages. At the bottom of the page you can also find some information on our webserver and its configuration.

HTML

HTML is THE basic building block of the world wide web. It stands for HyperText Markup Language. HTML is a document-layout and hyperlink specification language. It defines the syntax and placement of special, embedded directions that aren't displayed by the browser, but tell it how to display the contents of the document, including text, images, and other support media. The language also tells you how to make a document interactive through special hypertext links, which connect your document with other documents in yours and others' collections.
The most recent HTML version is version 4.0. The World Wide Web Consortium is a collaborative effort by industry, content specialists and experts to make the web more stable, available and interactive. Their site provides the specification of HTML 4.0. The W3C also provides a HTML Validation Service.
Our website also uses Cascading Style Sheets. These style sheets describe how your HTML code should be visualised. If you want to know how CSS works, look at version 1.0 or version 2.0.
The best way to write your own pages is to have a look at how other persons have written theirs. Most browsers support viewing the source code of the page you're looking at.

CGI

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is the part of the Web server that can communicate with other programs running on the server. With CGI, the Web server can call up a program, while passing user-specific data to the program. The program then processes that data and the server passes the program's response back to the Web browser. Unfortunately, the use of CGI-scripts is not allowed at the KBS website, due to the enormous security risks. Only in special cases, CGI is enabled. One of these special cases is the Cyberles.
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