Introduction
This page seeks to provide basic information on designing Bahá`í web pages. Included are details about special characters, publicizing your site, Bahá`í graphics, and more. See the Bahá`í Studies / Internet category, documenting various letters from Bahá`í institutions about bulletin boards / discussion forums and web pages. The documents contained therein give some guidance on how such bulletin boards should be used, and how web pages should be treated:
Link to Bahaindex.com
We greatly appreciate links to http://www.bahaindex.com.
Sample HTML:
<a href="http://www.bahaindex.com" title="Baha'i Faith Index">The Baha'i Faith Index</a>
Bahaindex.com Search from Your Page
Syndicate Bahaindex.com Search Engine
Put my search
engine on my page to give your visitors easy access to over 2700 Bahá'í
links, searchable by keyword right from your page. The search results
open in a new window. Just follow the instructions below - you only
have to copy and paste a few lines of text into your page.
Simple search box
To use this ... :
... copy and paste this code into your HTML document:
<SCRIPT
type="text/javascript" src="http://www.bahaindex.com/javascripts/searchbar.js"></SCRIPT>
If you prefer using the actual HTML source code, use the
following:
<form action="http://www.bahaindex.com/index.php?option=com_search" method="get">
<input name="searchword" id="mod_search_searchword" maxlength="20" alt="search" type="text" size="8" value="search Bahaindex.com" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='search...';" onfocus="if(this.value=='search...') this.value='';" />
<input type="submit" value="search" class="button"/>
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_search" />
<input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value="" />
</form>
If you have trouble getting the HTML code to work, just use the first option.
You can customize the above HTML
(only for the second option). Just make sure that the "name," "value,"
"type," "method," and "action" fields inside each tag always remain
exactly as indicated above - otherwise the search will not work. You
can, however, change the width of the search box, apply stylesheets, or
add a target field to the <form> tag, if you are comfortable with
doing these things.
Graphics
Baha’i Vector Graphics
This page is a growing resource of Bahá'í-related files for high-quality printing. Vector graphics, such as Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Corel, and various CAD formats allow for unlimited scaling without loss of quality. Therefore, these formats are the standard in graphic design, printing, typesetting, etc. The following graphics can be fully customized in terms of color, shape, and size.
This vector artwork is available to you in EPS format or a format of your choice for use in most graphics software, but especially such programs as Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Flash, and Corel.
Publicizing Your Site
A site is of little use if no one can find it. You will need to get it indexed (spidered) by search engines and, ideally, linked to by other similar-minded sites, such as Bahaindex.com. It also helps to set up a Google and Yahoo Sitemap.
Hosting
You will need an account to host your site. If you want a site address (URL) that looks something like : http://www.bahais-of-somecity.com then you should talk to your internet provider and they can arrange this.
Current Baha’i Date
In the top of this page you should see the current Bahá’í date.
This uses an external JavaScript file (.js) to
insert the current date, defining the Bahá`í months instead of the
Gregorian months.
Inserting the Bahá`í date is a little trickier, because
not only do you need to have the external JavaScript
file inserted the same way as above - you must also
insert some JavaScript into the HTML itself where
you want the date to be displayed. The external .JS
file converts the Gregorian date into the Badí calendar
- you should not change anything in this file.
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