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+| Tutorial Style guidelines   |
++-----------------------------+
+
+To keep things consistent, ff you want to contribute to the tutorial 
+please keep to these guidelines.
+
+
+1. Always include the style.css stylesheet like that:
+	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
+
+2. Put code/examples between
+
+	<pre class="code">
+	your code here
+	</pre>
+
+3. Use the default gt+ theme and (optionally) the crux WM theme for screenshots
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