About This Website
The USS Cubera website was begun in the late 1990s by Richard ’Rik’ Nilsson, a former crew member of Cubera in 1964-66. He had run across a cache of poloroid photos from the period during a home move. With the advent of World Wide Web search engines in the new millenium, the site was discovered by more former shipmates and more photos started flowing into his email inbox. The site grew. Technology changes were many and often back in those early days of the Web. By 2019, a major update was overdue to accommodate mobile devices.
The design of this website requires an HTML5-capable browser and has these features:
- PHP-generated page code adheres to W3C standards and validates as correctly coded XHTML and CSS2 for cross-platform display compatibility amongst up-to-date browsers
- A modern look utilizing today’s common icons and organizational techniques such as lists, accordion-style FAQs, contents menus, etc.
- Aesthetically, the appearance is open, clean and professional-looking, with light contrast to prevent eye fatigue
- Easy-to-read typographics for older eyes
- The site’s up-to-date menu system adjusts automatically as content pages are added or deleted with its integrated custom database-driven content management system (CMS)
- The CMS is fully self-documented with built-in user guides
- With ’Begin’ and ’End’ dating, content appears and disappears automatically. There is also a feature to remove content older than a certain time to be deleted from the database entirely
- Site content is easily added and maintained from anywhere anytime using cross-platform browser-based technology, so there is no need for maintainers to learn complex XHTML or other languages, and requires no installation of software on their desktop systems
- Content is delivered through a server-side Verso Wiki translator that permits authors complete organizational and styling control using simple Wikipedia-like wikicode markup to embed images, enhance text, create tables, create links, and perform other web publishing miracles
- At the same time, the site can also be augmented by hosting server-based scripting if desired to handle more complex information presentation schemes
- CSS2 stylesheets are also editable by the browser-based CMS
- No Javascript is used by the website itself, and sparsely by the CMS for purposes to which it is best suited
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Last modified: 09Oct2019