diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
deleted file mode 100644
index bd79912..0000000
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Marc Wäckerlin (http://marc.waeckerlin.org) <marc@waeckerlin.org>
diff --git a/ax_init_standard_project.m4 b/ax_init_standard_project.m4
index 1b48313..7509d7a 100644
--- a/ax_init_standard_project.m4
+++ b/ax_init_standard_project.m4
@@ -239,6 +239,18 @@ maintainer-clean-example-targets:
 EOF
 ])
 
+# use this in configure.ac to support HTML data for webservers
+AC_DEFUN([AX_BUILD_HTML], [
+  AC_CONFIG_FILES([html/makefile])
+  AX_ADD_MAKEFILE_TARGET_DEP([maintainer-clean-am], [maintainer-clean-example-targets], [html/makefile.in])
+  test -f html/makefile.in && cat >> examples/html.in <<EOF
+#### Begin: Appended by $0
+maintainer-clean-example-targets:
+	-rm makefile.in
+#### End: $0
+EOF
+])
+
 # use this in configure.ac to support C++ libraries
 AC_DEFUN([AX_USE_LIBTOOL], [
   # libtool versioning
diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index f36cedf..c29a037 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ GENERATED FILES
     * src/makefile.am - if you enabled AX_USE_CXX
     * src/version.hxx - if you enabled AX_USE_CXX
     * src/version.cxx - if you enabled AX_USE_CXX
+    * html/makefile.am - if you enabled AX_BUILD_HTML
     * scripts/makefile.in - if you enabled AX_USE_SCRIPTS
     * doc/makefile.am - if you enabled AX_USE_DOXYGEN
     * doc/doxyfile.in - if you enabled AX_USE_DOXYGEN
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ FILES TO EDIT
     * README
     * configure.ac
     * src/makefile.am
+    * html/makefile.am
     * test/makefile.am
     * examples/makefile.am
 
@@ -156,6 +158,7 @@ FILE DEPENDENCIES
   configuration a dependent, i.e.:
 
     * test/makefile.am depends on AX_USE_LIBTOOL
+    * html/makefile.am depends on AX_BUILD_HTML
     * doc/doxyfile.in depends on AX_BUILD_EXAMPLES
     * debian/control.in depends on AX_USE_DOXYGEN, AX_USE_CPPUNIT,
       AX_CXX_QT, AX_CXX_CHECK_QT, AX_USE_LIBTOOL
@@ -233,6 +236,10 @@ HEADER='## @id '"\$Id\$"'
 
 '
 
+notice() {
+    echo -e "\e[1;33m$*\e[0m"
+}
+
 run() {
     check=1
     while test $# -gt 0; do
@@ -367,9 +374,15 @@ copy ${MY_NAME}
 copy ax_init_standard_project.m4
 copy ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx_11.m4
 copy ax_check_qt.m4
-copy AUTHORS
+AUTHOR=$(gpg -K  | sed -n 's,uid *,,p' | sort | head -1)
+if test -z "${AUTHOR}"; then
+    AUTHOR="FIRSTNAME LASTNAME (URL) <EMAIL>"
+fi
+to AUTHORS <<EOF && notice "please edit AUTHORS"
+$AUTHOR
+EOF
 to configure.ac <<EOF && \
-    ( echo "please edit configure.ac, then rerun $0"; exit 0 )
+    ( notice "please edit configure.ac, then rerun $0"; exit 0 )
 ${HEADER}m4_define(x_package_name, ${DEFAULT_PROJECT_NAME}) # project's name
 m4_define(x_major, 0) # project's major version
 m4_define(x_minor, 0) # project's minor version
@@ -387,10 +400,11 @@ AX_INIT_STANDARD_PROJECT
 #AX_USE_RPM_PACKAGING
 #AX_USE_CPPUNIT
 #AX_BUILD_EXAMPLES
+#AX_BUILD_HTML
 
 # qt features, uncomment, what you need:
 #AX_CHECK_QT([QT], [QtCore QtGui QtNetwork], [QtWidgets])
-#AM_CPPFLAGS="${AM_CPPFLAGS} -DQT_NO_KEYWORDS"
+#AX_QT_NO_KEYWORDS
 
 # create output
 AC_OUTPUT
@@ -488,6 +502,14 @@ ${HEADER}AM_CPPFLAGS = -I${top_srcdir}/src -I${top_builddir}/src
 AM_LDFLAGS = -L${top_builddir}/src/.libs
 LDADD = -l${PACKAGE_NAME}
 
+MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = makefile.in
+EOF
+to --condition AX_BUILD_HTML html/makefile.am <<EOF
+${HEADER}EXTRA_DIST = \${www_DATA}
+
+wwwdir = \${pkgdatadir}/html
+www_DATA = 
+
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = makefile.in
 EOF
 if testtag AX_USE_DOXYGEN && \
@@ -617,7 +639,7 @@ EOF
     echo 7 | to debian/compat
 fi
 SUBDIRS=""
-for d in src test scripts doc examples; do
+for d in src test scripts doc examples html; do
     test -d $d && SUBDIRS="${SUBDIRS} $d"
 done
 to makefile.am<<EOF