Abstract
This is this site's welcome page.
It provides some information about the site you happened to land on.
Welcome
Herbert Glarner welcomes you to his site.
Navigation
There are several ways to navigate within this site: The
navigation.xmlNavigation
page links you accordingly.
E-mail
If you have comments or questions, you can send me an e-mail
(it can be found in the menubox to the left, on any page).
However, this was no promise to answer each and every e-mail.
The SiteTransition
Technology
All pages on this site were transferred recently from the
old server, in which process they were converted from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTMLXHTML
to pure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLXML
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Stylesheet_LanguageXSL
. You can easily see a page's XML markup, if you view its source code.
There is a
xml_manual.xmlmanual
explaining the used XML tags and attributes, and a page
discussing the technology used to create this site's
formulas_with_xml.xmlmathematical expressions
with ordinary XML markup.
Missing Pages
Looking for that particular page you are certain it was here?
It might still be found on the old server.
If you need it, drop me a message and I will see what I can do for you.
Link Symbols
This page uses small graphical symbols heading every link.
They indicate the location of the link target, as explained in the following sections.
The symbols are part of the link.
External Pages
http://www.example.comExternal links
navigate away from this site.
Note, that this site won't ever open a new browser window or tab:
it's assumed that you know how to open a link target in a
new window or tab if so desired, and also that you know
how to use a browser's back button.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExampleWikipedia links
are also external as above, but given that I refer to Wiki
articles quite often, I felt that such links should be given
an own icon.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beispiel_%28Rhetorik%29Wikipedia links in other languages
are preceded by the flag of a country in which this language is spoken
by a majority. The flag is part of the link.
some.personexample.comE-mail links should open your favourite e-mail application
and fill in the intended recipient's mail address.
Internal Pages
example.xmlInternal links
direct you to an other page on this site.
example.xmlPrevious page links
load the previous document of an internal series.
example.xmlNext page links
load the next document of an internal series.
#CDownward links
reposition to a section towards the end of
the actual page. This is most often used in notes, as in this one:
All notes on this site are bidirectional.
Click the note number to the left in order
to return to the position where the note was defined.
#AUpward links
reposition to a section towards the top of
the actual page.
Downloads from this Site
files/example.zipZip files
are downloadable files containing compressed files.
files/example.pdfPDF files
are downloadable documents in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_FormatPDF
format.
The Server
Server
The
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_serverWeb server
is a custom-tailored PC with an
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_CoreIntel Core i3 540 Dual Core
CPU running at 2 x 3.06 GHz.
This is a dedicated machine to serve Web pages, it has no other duties.
Software
It does this with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_ServicesInternet Information Services 7.5
on a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7Windows 7 Ultimate
OS.