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If you are a person responsible for managing the information provided by your organization, you have to balance the advantages of a "house style" with the advantages of giving each group or author free rein. If you end up with decisions in this area, it is as well to write them down (not to mention put them on the web). -- Tim Berners-Lee, Etiquette for information providers.

• HTML Authoring. Including an understanding of HTML 2.0, 3.0 and other extensions; e.g. tables, frames, server-push/client-pull, server-side includes, etc., as well as an appreciation for browser compatibility issues.

• Authoring Style. You should appreciate not only the technical issues of HTML, but also the aesthetics and ergonomics of hypertext, in order to produce pleasing and usable documents.

• CGI Scripting. Typically including (but not necessarily limited to) Perl, C and UNIX shell scripts.

• Graphic Design Capability. Able to produce attractive Web pages that are effective within the limitations of the delivery medium. A knowledge of graphics applications and techniques (e.g. Photoshop, Fractal Painter, 3D Modelling) and the ability to apply these in effective ways within the constraints imposed by the nature of the Internet.

• Internet Awareness. A general appreciation for the issues concerning the Internet and World Wide Web (download time/bandwidth, content-driven pages, graphics vs text, browser compatibility - colours, resolution, etc).

• Internet Protocols (e.g. Service ports, Name Servers, Email, USENET, HTTP, FTP, etc).

• WWW Server Configuration (e.g. CERN, Apache, Netscape Commercial Server - including NSAPI)

• General UNIX and PC (MS-Windows) Awareness.