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The UCLDH Site: Care and Feeding
The UCLDH main site, as opposed to the DH Blog, is maintained in a content management system named Silva. While we aren't aware of anyone who actually likes this system, it gets the job done and most of its abundant quirks can be worked around in one way or another.
Editing
Silva is edited in Kupu. While we aren't aware of anyone who actually likes this editor, it gets the job done and most of its abundant quirks can be worked around in one way or another. Moreover, we are advised that UCL IS are planning to replace it with a better editor named TinyMCE.
Adding HTML
A page being edited in Kupu can be toggled back and forth between the default graphical mode and plain text editing. The latter, while recommended to anyone with a grasp of coding HTML by hand, is a very deceptive proposition: it appears to support plain HTML, but in actual fact it does not: HTML entered in the plain text mode will be throughly chewed up by Silva when an attempt is made to save it.
To add HTML code to a document being edited, please use Add an External Source in Kupu's right sidebar and select HTML: insert HTML code from the drop-down menu. To add a block quotation, for instance, you will need to do this twice, once for the <blockquote> tag before the quote and once for the closing </blockquote> tag after the quote. Thus:
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