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Instructions for Editors

Original Author: Giuseppe Bottasini
Revised by: Rob Raeside (raeside@acadiau.ca)

Index

Introduction
The editorial staff
The editor's job
The job

Introduction

This document provides guidelines for editors of FLAGS OF THE WORLD (FOTW) web site in order to standardize the appearance of the web pages and reduce the effort of maintainance. Send suggestions and corrections to rob.raeside@acadiau.ca.

If you want some advice on HTML editors, here is a compilation of comments from some of our editors.

The Editorial Staff

The web pages are maintained by the FOTW editorial staff, that is the director plus the editors. Once a month, the director:

examines all the messages posted to FOTW mailing list
discards useless information (e.g. redundant header's lines, control messages etc.)
extracts the embedded images
groups the messages per subject
e-mails subjects and related images to the editors.

For each subject received, the editor:

ensures s/he has an up-to-date version of the pages being edited (the fotw.vexillum.com mirror is considered the most up-to-date, but the director can provide you with a zip file of pages you need)
adds the new material to the pages, creating new ones if needed
asks permission to use text and images taken from other Internet sites
polishes images, if needed and possible by the editor's means
zips