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Summary for putting your information on FortNet

1. Read the Welcome Letter. Fill out the Information Provider Application and Agreement. See Forms and Agreements for more details.
2. Once all the needed information is received an account will be created for you and you will receive email confirmation. If you wish to have your own Domain Name contact us to discuss arrangements and fees.
3. Read the FortNet HTML QA standards. These are designed to help you develop pages that look nice on ALL of the browsers viewing the pages, not just the one you use. FortNet's HTML skeleton will help you get started on the right track.
4. Create your web pages. You can either create them yourself, ask to have a volunteer create them for you or use outside contractors.
5. Publish your pages on FortNet by uploading them through FTP.
6. Check that your pages pass the WebLint requirement by running WebLint on them. You can also run HTML QA on them. If there are problems, fix them. If you need help you can get help at the HTML Team meetings or by sending a message to html@fortnet.org(the HTML Team mailing list).
7. Once you believe the pages are ready, send e-mail to htmlqa@fortnet.org indicating that there is new information to be validated and its URL(e.g. http://www.fortnet.org/INFOPROVIDER/).
8. FortNet's quality assurance(QA) team will validate that the information conforms to FortNet's standards and send you a response. Depending on how busy our volunteers are, this can take a couple of weeks. It will be quicker if you have already ensured that your pages meet the standards(especially WebLint).
9. Once everything passes QA, you should fill out the URL submittal page to get your pages listed in FortNet's listing. You probably also want to submit your URL to the main search engines.

last modified: Thursday, 16-Jan-2003 12:36:09 MST