Re: Announcing the new Content Management Professionals Organization: Become a charter member, spread the word, come to our first face-to-face meeting later this year!

As Iva mentioned, there are some issues with the CM Professionals site, and
I guess this is indicative of it's newness and the general state of
standards compliance across the internet.

Nevertheless I think this is a great initiative and should be congratulated
and supported. I for one am happy to join and play a part in making the CMS
industry more professional and standards focused. I am sure if enough people
feel the same this vehicle will improve as will the area of web content
delivery in general.

Congratulations to the founders.

Regards,

David Warwick
Komodo CMS


On 21/9/04 6:35 AM, "Iva Koberg" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hilary Marsh wrote:
> 
>> I am pleased to be part of the formation of the first association for
>> content management professionals, which is making its official launch
>> today. Our website is brand-new and still in its infancy, but we have
>> high hopes that this organization will provide much-needed community,
>> awareness and standards for the people and practices of content
>> management.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Hopefully this doesn't come across as too harsh, but is the website complete?
> We are seeing quite a few problems at a quick glance:
> 
> * homepage layout broken in Safari
> * if the purpose is to promote standards, the site may benefit from valid HTML
> (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.cmprofessionals.org/
> ), 
> CSS 
> (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%
> 3A//www.cmprofessionals.org/)
> * the site doesn't follow the most basic accessibility recommendations, even
> alt attributes for images are not present
> (http://www.contentquality.com/mynewtester/cynthia.exe?rptmode=-1&url1=http%3A
> //www.cmprofessionals.org/)
> * navigation uses JavaScript
> * the look and feel between pages changes (e.g. homepage and
> http://www.cmprofessionals.org/resources/practices/template.html) and
> navigation disappears
> * page load times are very slow
> * there seem to be some broken links
> (http://www.cmprofessionals.org/index.html/Module=Users7SkyTime=7MenuOptioniD=
> 54)
> 
> I wasn't sure if you are looking for feedback, in it's current stage the site
> doesn't seem professional and inline with its stated goals.
> 
> Best regards,
> Iva.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Please feel free to distribute this widely.
>> 
>> And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me
>> with questions.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Hilary Marsh
>> 
>> P.S. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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