New website

Welcome to the new Irish Democrat website!

This web site is designed to be as fast-loading, accessible and standards compliant as possible.

This page contains a brief description of some of the key technical features of this website.

Web standards

All the documents on this site are vaild XHTML 1.1, use valid CSS and comply with WAI WCAG A.

Syndication of headlines

Headlines are avaliable for syndication from this site in several XML formats, RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91 and RSS 1.0. In addition there is a Javascript version which you can use by simply putting this code into your html page:

<script type="text/javascript" 
src="http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/headline.js"></script>

Metadata

Every document on this site has an associated Dublin Core Metadata Initiative RDF file which can be accessed by adding dc.rdf to any documents address.

Printer friendly pages

A printer friendly version of every document on this site can be accessed by adding print.html to any documents address.

MKDoc

This web site uses the MKDoc web content management system.

If you have any technical problems with this site please don't hesitate to contact solutions@mkdoc.com.

Document Links

vaild XHTML 1.1: External Link: Validate the front page of this site with the W3C's HTML Validator.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/

valid CSS: External Link: Validate the front page of this site with the W3C's CSS Validator.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/

WAI WCAG A: External Link: Level A Conformance to the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1A-Conformance

RSS 0.9: http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/rss090headline.rdf

RSS 0.91: http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/rss091headline.rdf

RSS 1.0: http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/rss100headline.rdf

How To Syndicate News from a MKDoc Website: http://mkdoc.com/help/howto/syndicate/

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://www.dublincore.org/

dc.rdf: http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/2001/new-website/.print.html/dc.rdf

print.html: http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/2001/new-website/.print.html/print.html

MKDoc web content management system: http://mkdoc.com/

solutions@mkdoc.com: mailto:solutions@mkdoc.com

This document was created by Chris Croome on 2001-09-28 14:37:25.
This document was last modified by Chris Croome on 2001-10-06 13:21:55.
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