Re: WAI home page redesign - bkm draft 2

I know of one that allows complete customization of the code the system 
exports, and is extremely inexpensive. When we get there, I can provide 
more information in this area. It isn't a robust system, but it handles 
80% of what most people need.

-ml


On May 10, 2004, at 7:38 AM, Charmane K. Corcoran wrote:

>
> My information is rather limited, unfortunately. My exposure to CMS is 
> in the havoc they have caused. I have not heard of any strong success 
> stories. The CMS that are canned and very expensive tend to restrict 
> access to the templates by the purchaser and are not as accessible. 
> The  seller creates the template and may require additional fees to 
> change the template or the template is not coded in a way so that 
> accessible coding can be added by the end user. That is what has been 
> reported to me.
>
> The best we have been able to come up with is using the Macromedia 
> Contribute with Macromedia DreamWeaver. We control the Templates so we 
> can make them highly accessible.
>
>
> Charmane
>
>
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>> Great job Blossom!
>>
>> I agree with Justin's statement on flipping the photo - we'd need to 
>> get a
>> new version anyway - that one appears very lossy on my screen.
>>
>> As for eye-wandering I had a bit of that myself.  Possibly making 
>> some of
>> the vertical DIV's stronger would help.  Also, the links at the top 
>> appear
>> very close together in IE 6 and Opera.  There's not enough white space
>> between them to make them appear as individual links.
>>
>> I don't know that we need the WAI <h1> above the content as we've 
>> already
>> got the Logo above it.  I think it just gives us less space for 
>> content -
>> any other thoughts?
>>
>> Pardon me if we've discussed this.  It would be great if we could use 
>> a
>> dynamic content system that was easy to implement and made 100% 
>> accessible
>> pages - does one exist?  Charmane, you had a post the other day 
>> regarding
>> CMS - are there any you would recommend?  I've been using Movable 
>> Type for a
>> blog I'm working, and it appears to be great - as long as you add ALT 
>> text
>> to images.  I'm not sure what our policies are on using other 
>> technologies
>> though.
>>
>> Talk to you tomorrow.
>>
>> Carol
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Justin Zachary Thorp" <thorpjus@msu.edu>
>> To: "WAI Website Redesign Taskforce" <public-wai-eo-site@w3.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 3:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: WAI home page redesign - bkm draft 2
>>
>>
>>>
>>>  I think that this site is much more visually appealing then the last
>> draft.
>>>
>>>  My only concern is that when I look at the page my eyes are going
>>>  everywhere.  I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at.  I 
>>> can't
>> tell
>>>  what the main section is that I'm supposed to be reading.
>>>
>>>  Plus I would flip Tim Berners-Lee's body so that he is facing into 
>>> the
>>>  quote.  Right now he is like an arrow pulling people's eyes off the 
>>> page.
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>  Justin Thorp
>>>
>>>
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