Re: [seul-edu] (content managment system)

[Dirk Schouten <schoutdi@knoware.nl>]

Hi Bob,
I have been rather close to the development of the CMS and I can assure you
there has been taken care of people with limited vision. I.e ME!!
Enjoy the CMS!
Dirk

At 08:56 22-10-02 -0600, you wrote:
>A humble suggestion:  Make sure it is Web Accessible for the disabled. 
> You'll be thankful in the long run.  
>
>Web Accessibility Initiative
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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>Every Blind person using a reader thanks you for your consideration.
>
>Bob Sewell
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>Mark de Haan wrote:
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>>The Site@School CMS's next release (1.1) will be international. The site is
>>being translated to English and 1.1 will be fully compatible with Mozilla
>>1.0. A release date has not yet been set because of lack of time on my side,
>>but will probably be somewhere in november or december. Anyone who would
>>like to assist in development or translation of the language file to other
>>languages than english and dutch is very welcome to e-mail me.
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>>Mark (the programmer of site@school)
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>>>This CMS looks very professional. I couldn't find an English description
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>>page
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>>>at the site, but I did run across some specs (in Dutch). It looks like it
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>>is
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>>>written in PHP (rather than Perl) and MySQL, which means that it is
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>>probably
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>>>(IMHO) much easier to understand and alter, especially for non-expert
>>>programmers.
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>>>-Doug
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>>>Dirk Schouten <schoutdi@knoware.nl> said:
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>>>>Hi Doug,
>>>>I almost forgot to propose for inclusion on the ISO, the applcation that
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>>>>most used in our primary school: our Content Management System.
>>>>It is specially developed for primary schools and draws quite some
>>>>attention in Holland. The CMS was financed by the Educational Department
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>>>>our municipality "De Baarsjes', part of the City of Amsterdam, Holland.
>>>>Ofcourse it's OSS/GPL and it's written in Perl and available in English
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>>>>Dutch (at the moment). It's easy to adapt the CMS to other languages
>>>>because there is only one language file to translate.
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>>>>A blurb, translated from a Dutch site:
>>>>Site@School makes setting up and maintaining a website an easy task.
>>>>It enables webmasters to add advanced possibilities to the site without
>>>>programming like personal homepages for pupils. Pupils can easily add
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>>their
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>>>>material to the site.
>>>>Due to the extended possibilties site at school can easily be compared
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>>with
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>>>> expensive commercial systems.
>>>>Download: http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net
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>>>>That's all,
>>>>Kind regards,
>>>>Dirk
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