Instructions for the www.kundalini-gateway.org form pages. IMPORTANT! You must use a text based editor or text based HTML program that will not add code or reformat the code!! Do not use an editor such as Frontpage, Communicator, or any one where you view the web page to edit, instead of seeing the html code that shapes it. Why? Web editors like Frontpage add a lot of extra code to be able to do what they do. Odds are, this extra code will mess up the design of the page. Most importantly, if the code changes at all, even an extra space then I will not be able to use "search and replace" to update or repair the whole site at once. This is a huge site, nearly 10,000 pages including the archives. It is really important that the pages remain consistent. The good news is, this form I have made is so very simple you could edit it in notepad, or any plain text editor. You just have to add the content where the form indicates, add paragraph breaks and resave it under a new name. Easy! If your file is too long for notepad, get a copy of arachnophilia! http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html These instructions have been written for people who know nothing about HTML.. apologies if they seem too simple for the experienced designer... Please read the whole thing anyways. A copy of the stylesheet is at the bottom. If you don't know what a style sheet is, don't worry about it. It is just a page that specifies what kind of fonts are used in the design. Basic HTML for filling in the spaces. Anything in angle brackets is HTML code. Do not disturb! The only bits of code you will need to know, is these four items. You can copy and paste them or type them into your text.

is the code for making a two line paragraph break, and the stylesheet should make it indent the first line of the paragraph.
is the code for making a line break. It is usually placed at the end of the previous line. The text will wrap to the window automatically.   is the code for making a non breaking space.     three of them together makes an indent after a break tag. is a comment tag. Whatever you enclose in comment tag brackets by putting this at the end, does not show up when the page is viewed by a browser. Invisible. Comment tags are used to hide messages that are only to be read by other web writers who will be looking at the code. If you need to send me or some future volunteer a message about the page, or if you want to "autograph" your work, hide it in comment tags somewhere near the bottom, just before the comment tag that says . About the gateway pages: Depending on what you want to add, most topics are in their own subdirectory and you can download a form for that subdirectory. The directory structure: The root directory, www.kundalini-gateway.org or www.list-server.net/kundalini/ holds all the basic site pages, such as the K-list FAQ, cybrary, links pages and this page, as well as a bunch of meta-files that redirect people to pages that moved to a subdirectory when I redesigned the site. Most likely the content you will be updating, will be in one of the subdirectories. Each subdirectory has it's own blank web page form that you can fill out to add a page. The sub directories and the URLS to the forms for them are: /art/ Art Gallery. form: http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/art/art_form.html" /art/graphics/ A subdirectory that holds the images for the gallery. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/art/graphics/ Note: Netscape does not like nesting tables, so please don't use any when arranging images for the art gallery. /awaken/ Tales of Awakening form: http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/awaken/a_form.html /essays/ Member Essays form. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/essays/e_form.html /history/ List and website history form: http://www.kundalini-gateway.org//history/h_form.html /img/ Images: Where all graphics and images go, except the art from the art gallery. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/img/ /klist/ Thousands of list archives, and several subdirectories. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/k-list/ /kurt/ Kundalini FAQ's by Kurt Keutzer. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/kurt/ /meditat/ Meditations by members. form: http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/meditat/m_form.htm /poetry/ Members' Poetry form: http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/poetry/p_form.html /polls/ Kundalini polls form. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/polls/po_form.html Go to the page that has the form for the section you are adding to, and left click on it or go to 'file/save as' in your web browser, and save it to your harddrive. Usually you are given the option to save it as html only, or to save the entire page, including the graphics. Choose html only. Some browsers would rewite the page to decribe where the images appear locally on your hard drive if you try to save the whole thing for off-line browsing. We don't want that. The page will have blank spaces where the images used to be when you preview it in your web broswer, and the fonts may look different because the CSS (cascading stylesheet that controls how fonts appear and behave) is not loaded. No worries. Open the form page in a text based html editor and resave it under a new name to describe your page. Leave the initial letter or letters behind the underscore _ alone, because that prefix identifies to me what subdirectory the file belongs in. Type the a new file name of less than 7 letters over the word "form". Short filenames with no capitals or special charachters are preferred for the Unix servers that host the site, and the possible limitations of the systems of future volunteers. The third line of text is the title. For example: Kundalini Gateway. Member Essays: ESSAY NAME. AUTHOR. Leave the "Kundalini gateway" etc. portion alone. Block out the stuff in caps after the site and section name, and put in the author, or whatever it calls for in normal text. Next, scroll down the page 2/3 of the way to where you will find a dozen lines of white space. There you will find more all caps text indicating where to put the title, author and content. Add line breaks and paragraph breaks where needed in the content, not to the titles. Save it again, then send it to me as an email attachment, or (better) put it in the shared files of the yahoogroups website and notify me it is there, so I can upload it to the site. Make sure you only notify me and not the whole list. If you have some experience, it would be great if you can also update the index page for that section by adding a link to the page you have just created. Go to the index and save it to your hard drive as you did for the form, then resave it adding the same initial letters before the underscore in the filename as you left alone when renaming the form for that directory. So, of the form was for a poll, it was called po_form.html because "po_" is the prefix for filenames that go into the polls directory. You rename the polls index page po_index.html so I will know it is the index for the polls section. I will rename it index.html after I upload it to the correct directory. The letters before the underscore are to help me keep track of what page goes into what subdirectory. For example, if you are adding a poem and an essay to the site, the indexes are both called index.html but they are in different subdirectories. You would rename them p_index.html and e_index.html respectively. Thank you for helping with this website! 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