Petit Bourgeois

I just got word today that SAIL'05 has accepted the sponsoring / supplying offer of Splandigo to redesign its current site, and take it to the next stage, an event-oriented web site, with the following key characteristics:

• convey the image of the event, visually and content-wise
• be flexible to support an evolving communication

There shall certainly be a lot to say about this during the project, if I can find a minute to do so (which is not sure, however).

After priority 1 last month, the RINO site got its priority 2 certification on Wednesday, one of very few sites in Holland (I think about 6). More on this later.

The new web site of Splandigo has just been launched. More exciting visually, more carefully crafted content, only one main language (Dutch), this allows us to step up our communication. [Update 21 June 2009: URL was www.splandigo.nl and the site has been offline for a while now.]

Weblogs are a popular topic on the web (have been for a while), and are picking up academic clout, despite constant and gleeful anti-emergent-technologies-and-people bashing.

For a while already, I have been wondering about two distinct characteristics of blogs: on the one hand, their social and political implications, and on the other hand the industrial future of the companies that make a business of blog-related activities. I'll start with a practical example around the social acceptance (and need) of new communication media, as blogs are described by Elmine Wijnia in the thesis mentioned above.

In October 2004, Alexis Braud was invited to a conference organized by a local Attac, titled L'internet, Dans la société, l'économie et la culture : outil de liberté ou instrument de domination ?. The debate featured a high-profile French sociologist, Philippe Breton. Alexis was expected to defend the social potential of internet.

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The RINO Noord-Holland web site has obtained today the drempelsvrij.nl certification from Stichting Bartiméus Accessibility, validating the work we did on cleaning up the code and improving the design.

I'll go into more detail about this certification (process, advantages for the client, and what happened within Splandigo around it) in the next couple of weeks. In the meanwhile, congrats to Maarten, Jamy and Joris for making it happen.

I am very proud to present the latest addition to the RINO web site: Over de RINO. It features a lot of new content, that helps the RINO position itself and lets visitors get a good glimpse of what the company really is. Some design evolutions have been introduced (clickable titles instead of "read on..." links, gradients, etc.), and will be progressively rolled out in the rest of the site.

Hopefully the whole new section validates, ensuring that the upcoming accessibility certification of the RINO site is not endangered.

Congrats to Marius, Maarten, Jamy and Renaud of Splandigo, and Bernard Vehmeyer (copywriting and interviews) for getting this off the ground, it was about time!!

Thanks to Maarten, the PointComma web site now has got a decent look... [Update 21 June 2009: URL was www.pointcomma.com, site has been offline for a while.]

I need to get rid of a "note to self" on my desk, so here we go for the first major change planned for the upcoming PointComma 4: the security system. Renaud is currently cleaning up the code base, and building an extremely powerful application, but we have chosen not to change the security model for lack of information regarding what needs to be done (what problem are we solving?).

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The PointComma web content management system web site migrated to its own URL. It'd been in the works for a while, but I'd never gotten around to moving the files out of my private web site. I've cleaned up the code a tiny bit, added a couple of CSS rules (it's still majorly ugly I'm afraid). [Update 21 June 2009: URL was www.pointcomma.com but site has been offline for a while.]

Renaud has almost completed version 3.7, which features reorganized files, type inheritance, a very good error management system and cleaned-up code. We've also started the work on version 3.8 (which will probably become version 4 when it's released), more on the new features later.

The RINO is soon going to start using its Sympa install. Today, I've been trying to play a bit with templates.

Part of the information here is going to be useless to most people (notes about my specific install), but there might be interesting information for those of you trying to heavily customize the Sympa web interface.

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