Hi,
Christoph Neuroth christoph@deshalbfrei.org wrote:
I haven't mentioned this before, but I think acessibility is a *very* important matter to *all* GNU homepages. We want everyone to be able to get information about free software, this includes persons with certain disabilities. I'm not an expert on acessible web pages yet, but that's one of the things I want to learn about more in the future.
I think (X)HTML+CSS should be OK for accessibility.
After I finished my work on the new template, it is time to decide on a CMS. Personally, I'm still unsure between Serendipity and Typo3. Serendipity will be the simpler solution for this specific task, but Typo3 is way more flexible.
About Serendipity, what about the other bravegw sides beside the Column? As far as i can see they doesn't really fit into a weblog software. Also i have some concerns about the 3th party language plugin and for example what happens if we would need a language not available by default. Basically i share some concerns about a CMS with Bernhard Reiter [0] after i have played with some of them [1].
Personally i have reorganized the HTML files of the bravegw Homepage, replaced table-layout with CSS-layout, created a common look and feel for all sites and a script which handles language links and menus.
So the only regular work had to be done is copying the new issue into the right directory (e.g. en/2006/issueX.html) respectively into a issue-template, update the index file for the issue overview (maybe this could be handled by the script in the (near) future too) and run the script to create the actual menus and language links.
The new homepage is basically ready for upload i just waiting for the latest issues to upload not only a reorganized but also a up to date Homepage.
I think a CMS couldn't be much easier, we have the advantage of plain HTML files and don't have problems of long time maintaining a CMS, upgrades, bug-fixes, security-fixes,...
I don't want to stop any activities on CMS research, maybe you will get done something real good wich can convince everyone. But personally i think in the long run plain XHTML files + CSS and some scripts are probably the best solution. And most important plain text files gives you always full control over the homepage.
[0]http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2006-January/005384.html [1]http://www.opensourcecms.com/
Cheers, Bjoern