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[What is F2 all about?] [Why is it called 'F2'?] [Accessibility and Style] [Validation Tools Used] [Other Tools Used] [Divinely Inspired Feedback] [Who to blame] [Recent changes]

What is F2 all about?

• It is an outlet for the creative juices of F2's contributors
• It is somewhere to put our freeware products
• It is somewhere to publish prized gem-links sifted from the gravel of the web. Visit, if you dare, The Crypt of Eyesores

Why is it called 'F2'?

• Because 'F2' is very easy to type

Accessibility and Style

• Pages used to be checked for accessibility using Bobby 3.1 from CAST before it became a commerical product
  The last free version, Bobby 3.2, can still be downloaded by FTP from ftp://ftp.cast.org/pub/bobby/3_2/.
• Text-only versions of all pages are provided
• Images used throughout the site are not neccessary for navigation.
• Background images are not used, nor are fonts, font colours, frames or other fancy things beginning with 'f'

Validation Tools Used

Third-party tools used to check the site after changes are made include:

		Weblint by Neil Bowers is a Perl script which performs pedantic checks on the HTML
		Bobby 3.1 from CAST is a Java application which tests web pages for accessibility according to standards such as the W3C's WAI Page Authoring Guidelines

Other Tools Used

		AOL Press does the WYSIWYG HTML editing. It whines occasionally about HTML 4.0 tags, but is fairly well-behaved
		The Vim text editor does all the other editing
		Perl scripts are used to Reconstruct navigation links when pages are moved Create text-only versions of pages and check the accessibility of pages Impose some regularity of HTML style (attribute formatting, checks for duplicate anchor names & obsolete attributes) Check internal links (unused/non-existent anchors & pages) Construct the site map ActiveState has a Win32 version of Perl
		The Apache WWW Server allows testing of the site on a local computer before uploading to the f2.org host.
		The FileZilla FTP client is a free Win32 utility with a handy recursive directory transfer. WXFTP is a similar program for Unix variants
		Xenu's Link Sleuth by Tilman Hausherr verifies external links

Divinely Inspired Feedback

• Thank you very much for the page. It is so much of a relief to see some light-hearted and interesting information on the net. I have marked it and will return often. Of course I will pass it on to my friends.
  -- Graham Hohenhaus, Jan 2000
• I just wanted to thank you for your incredibly interesting site. I discovered it last night and can't stop clicking links. This is the sort of site that sparks the imagination. I love the variety of links you provide. Keep up the good work. Thanks again.
  -- Lisa Szabo, July 2001
• Your website's ecclecticisms have been a pleasure. -- Scott Tregear, July 2002

Who to blame

Principle site perpetrator:		Fred Curtis
Site Co-conspirators:		Evil Pixie		Raf

Recent changes

2003 Oct

• Finally taking some time to update the site.
• Added some new firewall and spyware-removal utils to win32 freeware net tools page ; Added some automation utils to win32 freeware desktop tools page ; Added some strange links to humour page ;

• Added Pi Perfume page to F2 web archive

• f2.org server restored

• f2.org server crashes ; pages relocated to a temporary server

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This page last changed: 22 May 2003 [Validate HTML]

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