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Standard Page Format

Web pages are an extremely useful format for many different purposes. If possible, I think it's best to stick to the most widely used standards.

This format may be UTF-8 encoded, Strict XHTML 1.1 with CSS1. The file may contain an American English (en-US) web page, valid in the strict XHTML 1.1 language, encoded in UTF-8. It may also contain a fun visual style for the page, in the CSS1 language.

Entire jobs may be distributed in single ZIP files. The zip may contain web pages and atom feeds. An atom feed can include a good record of the whole project.

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