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Internet
Office News
Lots
of news this week, the IO is back on track after a short break
from Project Hawkeye!
I
have returned from my leave of absence, and I'd like to commend
my CA Mutilator for doing a good job running the office while
I was away.
IOA
Alex Foley has been hard at work this week - first of all, he
has created the new redirection service, Stardestroyer.org
at http://www.stardestroyer.org.
We encourage everyone to make use of this new and useful service,
especially if you have a long URL.
Also,
Alex Foley has created an IWATS Flash course - with 50 graduates
in 2 days already! Take it at http://iwats.stardestroyer.org.
Progress
is nearly complete on the EH Holonet Awards by, you guessed it,
IOA Alex Foley. More details will be released soon, keep checking
ehnet.org for updates!
After
all this, it's no surprise that CM Alex Foley has been awarded
the Commendation of Excellence (CoE) for consistent work
with the Internet Office. Congrats on winning this much-coveted
award - he's the first person below COL to be awarded the CoE!
RA
Keldorn is working on Issue 3 of The Holonet Journals.
Please send all your submissions, anything - articles,
code snippets, humor, anything - send to keldorn@ehnet.org!
Want
free medals??? Are you good at graphics?
Then you're just the person we need! The EH Greeting Card Center,
at http://www.ehnet.org/gcc/,
is in need of some new cards as you can probably see. Anything
you can come up with, birthday greetings, well-wishes, anything
that's EH- or Star Wars-oriented, and as long as it is appropriate
and it fits the GCC - e-mail it to me at ari@tiecorps.org!
Medals will be awarded according to the number of submissions
I accept from you. 1-2 earns an ISM, 3-5 PC, 6-10 BS, 10+ SS.
The Grand Admiral himself has requested that the GCC be expanded,
and hopefully if I get enough cards we can divide it up into individual
sections based on card-type.
I
have written up a list of Internet Guidelines for
the entire fleet. These will be posted on the major EH news sites
soon, as well as EHNet.org. Sites MUST follow the rules
laid out in the guidelines, and we at the Internet Office highly
recommend considering the suggestions.
Rules:
- Sites
MUST have links to the EH Disclaimers (http://www.emperorshammer.org/disclaim.htm)
and EH Privacy Policy (http://www.emperorshammer.org/privacy.htm)
pages displayed on the main page of their site or on the navbar.
- Sites
may NOT use tsx.org as a redirection service.
- Obviously,
all sites must abide by Bylaws and AoWs.
- Sites
who do not obey these rules will not be linked to by any major
EH site. Webmasters who do not comply after being asked to may
be subject to Security Officer action.
- The
Internet Officer reserves the right to add rules to these at
any time.
Strong
Suggestions:
- Sites
with excessively long URLs should consider domain redirection
provided by http://www.stardestroyer.org.
- All
sites should be compatible with the latest version of major
browsers (IE 6 and Netscape 6).
- Sites
should preferably be optimized for 800x600 resolution, but if
it is necessary, 1024x768 is also acceptable.
- A
good idea is to run your site through the W3C HTML Validator
(http://validator.w3.org/)
and CSS Validator (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/).
- Do
not have unnecessary large images, popups, or Java applets on
your page. They slow down loading time tremendously.
- A
warning about using MS Word and older versions of Frontpage
to create websites: they add in large amounts of unnecessary
tags, which slow down loading times.
These
aren't too much to ask for I hope, but all EH sites MUST follow
these rules.
If
you have any ideas for the plotline for Hawkeye II, e-mail me.
Whew...very
long report. That's it for this week!
Emperor's
Hammer: Site of the Week
This
week's SOTW is the newly redone Imperial Senate site at
http://www.imperial-senate.org.
Congrats to Orv Dessrx (orv@borkweb.com)
on a job well-done!
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