Arctos Developers Guide

Tips, tricks, and conventions for developing Arctos code

CFML

Arctos is written primarily in CFML and HTML.

• within <cfoutput></cfoutput> tags, # is a special character; #variable# means render variable variable as HTML. # used as text (eg, as an anchor in a URL) must be escaped. someURL.com#anchor must be written as someURL.com##anchor
• outside of <cfoutput></cfoutput> # is just a character.

URLS

• make internal URLs relative - /somePage never http://....somePage
• style external URLs like this: <a href="http:://...somePage" target="_blank" class="external">linktext</a>

CSS

• when possible, use /includes/style.css for styling. (Directions for minimizing are inline.)
• for one-off use, in-page CSS (<style></style> tags) is acceptable but less preferred
• avoid inline styling (<div style="...."></div>); this makes it very difficult to change things and keep a consistent look and feel