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+This file provides instructions for contributing to the website hosted
+at <https://spectrum-os.org/>.  If you would like to contribute to the
+Spectrum operating system itself, please refer to the
+contributing.html file.
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+
+Design tweaks, content updates, fixes (both factual and grammatical),
+and new content for the Spectrum website are all welcomed.
+
+Try to keep lines at around 70 characters, HTML out of the way as much
+as possible while still being valid (did you know <p> can
+self-close?), and CSS to a minimum.  We want to optimise for the
+website being as nice as possible to navigate in a text editor, to
+encourage people to edit and improve the website.
+
+Please send patches to devel@spectrum-os.org.  Instructions for how to
+do this are provided in the contributing.html file.
+
+It's helpful if people can see at a glance that your patch is for the
+website.  To help with this, Git provides a feature that will
+automatically prepend a prefix to the subject line of every patch
+message sent by it in a given repository.  You can configure it by
+running the following command in this Git repository:
+
+	git config sendemail.subjectPrefix "PATCH www"
+
+From now on, git-send-email(1) will automatically add "[PATCH www]" to
+the start of every patch sent for this repository, instead of the
+default "[PATCH]".
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