[Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site

[Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO]

Do you know how these work with screen readers? I would suggest talking with Gary Wunder the chairman of the Web committee. He can best explain what other affiliates are doing. If you like I will persue that.

Susie

From: home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:50 PM
To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site

Hey Floyd,

I was actually thinking that a content management system would be a great idea for the affiliate website.

In short this would be a system that would allow authorized people to make content postings without having to worry about formatting and stuff. This would allow us to develop a design once and then focus on content generation/delivery in a fashion not unlike wikipedia (though with much better access controls and without everybody seeing an "edit" link).

This would also help with the "one webmaster" problem and allow the many people in our affiliate who are great at creating content to more easily leverage their skills.

Examples of these systems include:
http://www.scribus.net/ (using drupal) and
http://berkeley.edu/ (running TikiWiki)

These are very simple to install as they simply require put a few files on the server just like a regular web page, and could be maintained fairly easily.

I think it would make building/maintaining/updating the site a lot slicker and make it easier to integrate some of our other projects like posting our newsletter, meeting minutes and/or convention media.

If your interested I can use my old netbook to put together a demo of a couple of these packages for state convention so people can get a feel for what it would look like and how it might work.

Just a thought.

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Andrew Chapman
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