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Shambhala WebGuild Resources PageOfficial Printable Shambhala Center URLs
Official Printable Shambhala Center URLsWe have a program running on the www.shambhala.org server that translates and redirects your Official Printable Shambhala Center URL to whereever your pages happen to currently reside. Since it can point anywhere, your Printable SC URL is *permanent*, and will never change no matter where you move your pages. So you can print it on brochures, letterhead, business cards, ads, etc.If anyone prints a URL that doesn't look like this: http://www.shambhala.org/center/boston the nearest WebGuild member is hereby authorized to strangle them! Please try to spare yourself that bad karma by telling your publicity person and anyone else who will listen to print only your center's Official Printable URL. If you happen to be hosting your pages physically on the www.shambhala.org server at the moment, your physical URL will start with "www.shambhala.org/centers/...". Dont' print your physical URL! Print your Official Printable URL, which has "/center/...", without the "s". If your pages are hosted on a local server, your physical URL will look something like "http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/shambhala", and you don't want to print that URL either. Here are the current Official Printable names: Official Printable Shambhala Center URL List These links are maintained in the database file /www/center/center.db. On the left is the official center name and on the right is the current URL of their home page. Since we can easily update this file and point it to a new location, the official names on the left form a permanent center URL suitable for publication in brochures, letterhead, and so forth.
The center name part of the url is case insensitive, and dashes (-)
can represent any character or no character.
So you can publish your Official Shambhala URLs like any of these:
I like the first style, but it is up to you. All of them will work. WebGuild ListsIf you are involved in creating Shambhala web pages, but are not yet a member of the WebGuild email list and would like to join, write to < webmaster@shambhala.org>. WebGuild members have access to the Shambhala Image Library.Here is the structure of the various web lists:
WebGuild
(Worldwide Shambhala Webmasters)
The WebGuild forum consists of all the Shambhala webmasters from around the world. Site update requests may be sent to WebMaster. The WebVision committee is exploring what we want our web presence to be in the medium and long term. The WebAction group is going to revamp the current site "look" by using easily changed site templates for a unified and easily updatable appearance. Site MapsHere is the Site Directory Map. It shows the entire directory structure, including obselete material. Probably time to clean some of it out. There is now a directory in the ftp area called "/old". Just rename stuff from "/www/cruft" to "/old/cruft".You can search the entire site for text or links. Check out these Upper Case File Names! These are violations of our file name standards. Here are the Unindexed Directories. These are directories without an index.htm or index.html file. Some of these are on purpose, others should have their main file renamed to index.htm/l. See our of our site directory indexing conventions for the rational. www.shambhala.org File Name StandardsOur www.shambhala.org server hosts many files from many authors that over time will be maintained by many different individuals running on all kinds of different platforms. In order to work smoothly together, we need to observe a common set of standards. The goal is to allow any directory to be downloaded for maintenance, tested and fixed on any home computer, and then uploaded back to www.shambhala.org.The main standard is that *all* directory and file names be *entirely* lowercase. Macs and PCs fold all filenames to lowercase while looking them up, while our Unix server considers uppercase to be different from lowercase. Thus links that work on a local Mac or PC will mysteriously fail on the www.shambhala.org server. If is also lots easier to remember all lowercase than some random mixture of UPPERandlowerCaseletters. Please use only relative URLs for local links within a subsite. It is far better to use a relative path name ("pema50.jpg") rather than an absolute path name ("/acharya/pema/pema50.jpg"). This makes it possible to work on a subsite at home, test the links, and then upload to www.shambhala.org and have the links work there too. Another point is to keep related sets of html files and images together in a single directory so that they can be uploaded and downloaded as a single convenient unit. Put images in the *same* directory as the page(s) that reference them, unless an image is used by more than one directory. Since all files in a directory are related, there is no need to name the main directory file anything other than "index.html". This simplifies linking, because we can link to the directory itself rather than some arbitrary filename within it ("acharya/pema" is easier to remember than "acharya/pema/truenature.html"). Check out the Site Maps above. There are plenty of standards violations left over from the early days. Shambhala Web Page StandardsMark Szpakowski and Edzard de Ranitz developed stylistic standards for the Shambhala web pages: cf the prototype page for a start on this. This will be superseded by the WebAction template model.Cgiemail Web Form MailerWe have the cgiemail web form mail cgi program loaded. For an example look at these two urls:/members/newaddr.html /members/newaddr.txtIf you look at the html source you can see the call to cgiauth. There are two flavors: "cgiauth" requires a member login, such as members only forms. "cgiemail" does not ask for a login. Look at the .txt file for an example of an email template. For additional documentation visit the cgiemail home page. FTP Access to the Shambhala Web Pageswww.shambhala.org is running wu-ftpd. This allows password protected access to webmasters for direct FTP uploading into their respective areas. Note (2004/07/30): Table with partial listing of shambhala.org ftp users. Suggestions for this page may be sent to webmaster@shambhala.org.
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