This template set is based on the original HTML-only Carterlake WD templates with the addition of AJAX real-time updates and a full-PHP modular website design incorporating the TNETweather modular site design. The templates use a modified weather-screen.css to implement a fixed-width (800px) website or full-width design with built-in color/width style changer. Using PHP allows this template to require only one file to be uploaded through your weather software for symbolic substitution for weather conditions. The AJAX JavaScript reads a separate, frequently uploaded, conditions file produced by your weather software to dynamically update selected parts of the HTML on the pages to reflect really current conditions at your location.

The templates are grouped into three basic versions based on geographic location, and include the support scripts needed for that geography:

• USA-template (for USA, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands)
• Canada-Multingual template English/French (for Canada)
• World-Multilingual template (for non-USA, non-Canada)

Plugins are available for weather station software:

• AmbientWeather.net Network (requires userid on ambientweather.net AND DeviceID AND apiKey)
• Cumulus 1 or CumulusMX
• Meteobridge
• *** Meteohub
• Virtual Weather Station
• Weather-Display
• *** WeatherCat (Version V0.95, Build 152 or later) (Successor product to Lightsoft Weather Center (LWC))
• WeatherLink
• WeatherLink.com (requires a userid/password on weatherlink.com AND DeviceID, Key for station)
• *** WeatherSnoop (Version 2.1.1 or later)
• WeeWX (Version 4.5.0 or later)
• wview
• WxSolution

<pNote: *** Plugin is no longer maintained since the testing environment for it is no longer functional. It may not work correctly with updates to the weather software. Use at your own risk.

A complete template consists of a Base (determined by your geographical location) and a Plugin for your specific weather software.

Main features of the template set:

• Modular structure for display pages on website with primary areas (top, header, sidebar, footer) controlled by included parts so global changes can be easily made to one file and shown on all pages in the site.
• A 4-level CSS-based flyout-menu system controlled by specification in one XML file.
• Built-in theme switcher allowing optional viewer control over website color scheme and wide/narrow aspect (with user preferences remembered by browser cookie)
• Built-in multilingual translation capability for single-phrase lookup (English to target language) and entire-page fixed content translation.
• Integrated support scripts for forecasts, alerts, and earthquake information appropriate to the geography selected.
• Built-in optional debugging displays for remote site support.
• Validated XHTML 1.0-Transitional HTML and CSS 2.1

Support for the Saratoga Template Sets can be found here.