[Chester LUG] Your help required!

[Les Pritchard]

Yes documentation seems to be the problem that comes up with a lot of these
products.  Especially because each one has their own way of doing things
that is normally not obvious at first.  I spent a bit of time setting up a
site with Drupal, tweaking it and finding out where all the options were.
Then I made the mistake of upgrading the box and I ended up back at square
1.

Thanks for that link, I'll have a play with that CMS.

Les

On 3/25/08, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Les Pritchard wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > It was a few reasons, we wanted a popular CMS with a good set of
> features
> > and we'd had some good feedback from some people who use screen readers
> > that Joomla sites as standard worked well.  Also, the sysadmin who'll be
> > maintaining it seems to like it - so that's always good!
> >
> > As I said in the other email to Richard, although we're primarily
> looking
> > at Joomla, if we can build information on other CMSs that will be really
> > good.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Les
>
>
>
> Hi Les,
>
>   We've been looking at a few, I think the main problem we've found is
> poor
> documentation (OS'es bane). With regard to Joomla, I think we discounted
> this
> because it did not easily to +2 levels of categorization.
>
>
>
> > sysadmin who'll be
> > maintaining it seems to like it
>
>
> this overides most things.
>
> The person who will be doing the most work with whatever we go with is
> taken
> by mysource matrix http://matrix.squiz.net, it has very good
> documentation,
> however it is licensed it two way, there is the open source version and a
> comercially supported version.
>
>   Dave.
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:18 PM, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
> > > On Monday 24 March 2008, Les Pritchard wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm involved in a project with a local charity that is aiming to
> > > > improve the standard of living for visually impaired people with
> > > > technology.
> > >
> > >  One
> > >
> > > > part of the project has been to create a best practice guide for
> > > > organisations to create fully accessible websites based on a
> CMS.  We
> > >
> > > have
> > >
> > > > chosen Joomla for a variety of reasons, but most importantly because
> it
> > >
> > > is
> > >
> > > > Open Source.
> > >
> > > Just curious, why Joomla? as opposed to Drupal,  CMS, modx....
> > >
> > >  Dave.
> > >
> > > > The charity is currently developing their own website as an example
> of
> > > > a fully accessible website and we're looking for some volunteers to
> > > > donate
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > > > little bit of their time and skills to the project.  The site is
> > >
> > > structured
> > >
> > > > in a modular format and we need various modules developing.  All of
> > >
> > > these
> > >
> > > > modules are reasonably simple, but will help build a good example of
> a
> > > > website that is open to all.
> > > >
> > > > All work will be released as Open Source code and will also be
> included
> > > > with the best practice guide (which will be freely available) so it
> can
> > > > help others create their sites.  On a side note, it will also help
> > >
> > > promote
> > >
> > > > Open Source software to organisations that may not have previously
> > > > considered it.  The project is going to be presented to a variety of
> > > > companies, technical and non-technical and will be receiving some
> media
> > > > publicity. Anyone who helps develop a module will receive full
> credit
> > > > on the website.
> > > >
> > > > So if you have experience in PHP or Joomla and would like to donate
> > > > some time to charity and Open Source projects, please get in contact
> > > > with me
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > > I'll provide you with some more information.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Les
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dr. David Holden.
> > >
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> Dr. David Holden.
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