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Your pages should include all of the following items. Copy and edit the following html code as needed:

  • Properly written web pages should meet code standards as documented by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Checking your pages against these standards is called validation. To use the available validation utilities you must have a doctype tag at the very top of each of your pages, such as the following:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
  • Put MIT branding in the footer or elsewhere on the page. Remember, due to MIT's open network, external users may find your pages through public search engines and will not have any context for your page.
    MIT Copyright sample code for footer:

    <a href="http://web.mit.edu/">
    <img src="http://web.mit.edu/interface/mit993333.gif" alt="mit" width=42 height=24 border=0></a>
    <i>Comments and questions to
    <a href="your-comment-URL">
    username@mit.edu</a></i><br>
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