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<h2 class="entry-header">How to to contribute to W3C work? Quick Tips</h2>
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<p>During the lunch break at the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/05/html-mail/" title="W3C HTML Mail Workshop - 24 May 2007 - Paris">HTML in email workshop</a> in Paris, a Web designer told me it was too expensive to participate to W3C work. This is a common myth about W3C. There are <strong>many ways to participate</strong> and be part of the Web standard efforts without necessary being a computing engineer and/or become a <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-benefits" title="About W3C Membership: Benefits">W3C Member</a>.</p>
<p>In the next few weeks, I will introduce ways <em>anyone</em> can participate to W3C, without having to become a Member, and will explain how it benefits you <strong>and</strong> the Web communities. Let's start with the Quick Tips!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/" title="Quality Tips for Webmasters">Quick Tips</a> (or Quality Tips) are <q cite="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/">Short, simple bits of knowledge for better Web design, authoring, and use, on quality issues related to W3C technologies such as HTML, CSS, HTTP.</q> The Tips are however not limited to these technologies: It is entire possible to write about SVG, Semantic Web, Web Services or anything related to the W3C technologies.</p>
<p>There is a very short <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/#process" title="Quality Tips for Webmasters">set of guidelines for creating quick tips</a>. When writing one, you should focus on a few things: </p>
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<li>Make it cool to read</li>
<li>Make it useful for anyone</li>
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<p>The Quick Tips are used on the <a href="http://validator.w3.org/" title="W3C validator">Markup validator</a> to give a short and quick readable information for Webmasters, and listed on this weblog. They are listed and can be used as reference materials for tutorials or in a Web agency, for example.</p>
<p>If your Web Site uses php, you can even include a block with random Tips with the following one-liner:</p>
<pre class="html"><code><?php include "http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/random_tip.inc"; ?></code></pre>
<p>It is a wide public exposure of your knowledge and skills (good karma) and it helps the community to benefit from your useful and simple recipes. Looking forward to your mails on <a href="mailto:public-evangelist@w3.org">public-evangelist@w3.org</a>.</p>
<p>Next time, I will talk about tutorials.</p>
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<p class="postinfo">Filed by <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/karl/">Karl Dubost</a> on May 28, 2007 7:59 AM in <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/w3cqa_news/w3c_life/">W3C Life</a><br />
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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Gicela </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c041001">#</a> 2007-05-31</span>
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<p>I think you need to make the URL's for the random_tip.inc absolute </p>
<p>thank you.
Gicela</p>
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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>olivier </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c041206">#</a> 2007-06-01</span>
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<p>Gicela, good point. It's fixed now.</p>
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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Nicolas Le Gall </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c045302">#</a> 2007-06-12</span>
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<p>Very good this (and these) post(s).</p>
<p>Participate to a W3C work is time expensive, especially at the begining. The W3's website is too confuse to find some informations. When I joined the HTML WG I asked myself "What else?", no explanation, no links, I had to search for it. And it cost a lot of time.</p>
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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Jean-François Naud </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c049094">#</a> 2007-06-21</span>
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<p>hi,</p>
<p>could you fix the php script (http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/random<em>tip.inc), replacing
echo $rotating</em>tips[$rot<em>choice</em>number];
with
echo $rotating<em>tips[$rot</em>choice_number-1];
, please ?</p>
<p>Right now : the script never return the first item, and crashes when he should display the last item...</p>
<p>Thanx !</p>
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