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Handy resources for website development

Official NREC documentation​

The official NREC documentation can be found here

Software Carpentry courses​

The Software Carpentries offer openly licensed courses on computer science related courses. Some of the topics which can be relevant for website development can be:

Domain names​

ii-domain name​

Contact Stanislav Oltu if you wish to have a domain name under ii.uib.no (for example the website you are currently browsing: https://web-selfhosting.ii.uib.no/)

note

Only employees at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen are eligible to create such domain names

Purchasing a domain name​

If you need a domain name which is not affiliated with the Department of Informatics, there are a plethora of domain vendors available.

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/

Markdown hacks and tricks​

The following website contains useful

https://www.markdownguide.org/hacks/

Mermaid diagrams​

Mermaid diagrams are useful tools for creating diagrams which can render inside Markdown.

Consider the following chart:

which is rendering by the following text in Markdown:

    ```mermaid
    graph LR;
        A --> B
        A --> C
        B <--> C
Mermaid diagrams are automatically configure the layout of your chart, and you can control the direction and type of chart you want to visualize.