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| -Choose between [http://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/PrettyUrls|two] [http://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/FeaturePrettyUrlsExtended|types] of Pretty URLs with Apache's Mod Rewrite feature. Through an interface you can add semantic, [http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/WWW/LINK/|link-based] navigation to your pages. Apart from the "usual" accessability concepts (XHTML Strict + CSS, some access keys, use of label tags, forms that don't rely on Javascript), many features wait for you to be activated to improve your site's accessability and usability. To mention a few: [http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/|S5] lets users create a standards compliant slide show from your wiki pages, real time PDF-conversion, RSS feeds from almost any content, and to comfort the admin, bitweaver comes with a very powerful and helpful installer. Bitweaver's [http://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/LanguagesPackage|languages package] is heavy machinery. It gives you every possibility to taylor your site to an international audience. You can record unstranslated strings, use an online interface to translate your site, base language selection on the browser's language, and let users select their language based on flag icons.
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| +Choose between [http://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/PrettyUrls|two] [http://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/FeaturePrettyUrlsExtended|types] of Pretty URLs with Apache's Mod Rewrite feature. Through an interface you can add semantic, [http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/WWW/LINK/|link-based] navigation to your pages. Apart from the "usual" accessibility concepts (XHTML Strict + CSS, some access keys, use of label tags, forms that don't rely on Javascript), many features wait for you to be activated to improve your site's accessibility and usability. To mention a few: [http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/|S5] lets users create a standards compliant slide show from your wiki pages, real time PDF-conversion, RSS feeds from almost any content, and to comfort the admin, Bitweaver comes with a very powerful and helpful installer. Bitweaver's [http://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/LanguagesPackage|languages package] is heavy machinery. It gives you every possibility to tailor your site to an international audience. You can record untranslated strings, use an online interface to translate your site, base language selection on the browser's language, and let users select their language based on flag icons. |
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| During development, to make code changes appear after refreshing the page in your browser, flush all caches (templates, icons, languages, modules) via admin panel, or make Smarty recompile all templates via /kernel/config_inc.php. When writing PHP, you can use [http://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/index.php?structure_id=198#Whatareyourgenericdevtools|certain functions like vd() and bt()] to get a visual feedback. If you're developing your own Style, use the Smarty function {debug} anywhere in your template to produce a popup window that tells you exactly which arrays and values are available to you. |
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