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I changed the headers in the HTML files, but not without mishap. The first time through, it used the filename without the path, and the result was that everything got written to the main directory. This caused files in the main directory with the same name as files in subdirectories to be overwritten. I replaced shogi.html and xiangqi.html from my harddrive, but I lost index.html, and I'm not sure what else may be lost. Perhaps David will have backups of anything that may be lost from the main directory.
I retrieved and edited a copy of index.html from archive.org.
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To add a ratings system and a login form to the header, I will need to write the header in PHP, not Perl. Maybe it could be done in Perl, but I normally write in PHP, PHP has natural integration with HTML, and its syntax is more like C. So I prefer to use PHP. The problem is that the header files called by most of the pages here are Perl CGI scripts, and I can't just write PHP in a .cgi file. Nor have I found a way to call a PHP script from a Perl script. So it looks like I will have to rewrite all the HTML files that call headerscript.cgi or other Perl headers. This seemed like a time-consuming task until I realized I could write a script to recursively load and edit all the HTML files on the site. I'll test it on one file before I go recursive through the whole site. While I'm at it, I'll also see about converting pages to UTF-8. So I'll find a page using Latin-1 and test it on that. If it works, site-wide conversion to UTF-8 will be much easier. I'll get on this after work.