[thelist] Site check: www.rspb.org.uk

Bird, Graham Graham.Bird at rspb.org.uk
Fri Feb 7 08:26:57 CST 2003


Francois,

> I'm also amazed that everyone who responded suppressed
> the urge to make some wisecrack about your name!

So am I :)

> I was wondering what CMS the site is using, or whether
> it's bespoke. I'm impressed with the degree of contextual
> navigation, which I imagine relies on metadata stored
> with the articles.

It uses Tridion DialogServer. If you want something extremely
flexible that uses VBScript, XML and heavy MS integration it might
be worth looking at...unless you want to die an early death from
frustration because the admin client is so...f%&*^ing...slow, or drive
yourself mad because the UI is as transparent as...well.

I'm being too harsh. It has its flaws...

> Excellent site -- in terms of content, design, IA and
> implementation. Well done.

Thankyou. Much appreciated.

> Criticism: the site's generally a role model of structural
> markup, up to a certain point. Article content is wholly
> outside of structural tags; paragraphs separated by
> <br /><br />. Is that a case of "journalists don't
> understand structural markup" + CMS limitations?

I've been pretty strict with myself, but there may be a few hiccups
in there. Tridion though is back in the dark ages as far as
it's formatted textareas are concerned. It chucks out a total mess of
uppercase style and font tags with a liberal sprinkling of empty
paragraphs. We're stripping font tags by parsing the output with
regexps, but it's more difficult to trap the other tags. Hopefully we'll
get round to it before long.

Thanks again,

Cheers,

Graham



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