www.radiowalcheren.nl has been re-launched (new webmasters) and re-designed.
The switch of webmasters (including me for the technical side of things) was due a change in board. Now one member of the board and one volunteer will both take care of the content of the site.
The new design is based on WordPress 3.0`s twenty ten theme. In the future this theme might be replaced by K2 but at the moment it work`s good enough.
The switch of theme was necessary because the site has to follow the W3C ARIA rules because some visitors are elderly people – which mean most of them have glasses or worse! By obeying the W3C ARIA rules it`s possible to use a text-to-speech engine and/or zoom-in on the page.
The theme is also microformats compatible.
Whether you’re looking for a new site or a re-design of your old site you`ve come to the right person. For webdesign I use technologies like;
- HTML 4, 5 and XHTML 1.1
- CSS 2.1 / 3
- JavaScript
- AJAX including libraries like jQuery and Dojo
- Flash / AIR / Flex
- XML
- PHP 5 (including 5.2 and 5.3) / MySQL 5
- Microformats
The website will be valid according W3C, WCAG 1 and Section 508.
I`m familiar with the following third party website engines:
- Joomla!
- Movable Type
- phpBB
Finally R-LIMS 1.5.0 has been released.
I haven`t been working on it much lately but i consider the 1.5.0 release complete. Thats why the release is two weeks late.
Version 1.5.1 is planned for next monday; 17 august 2009.
Changelog
- [Changelog] Links are now bold and red
- [SEO] Added robots.txt to make sure nothing is indexed
- [Bug] Removed an out-dated stylesheet
- [Optimalisation] Added PHP flush`s in the page, just after the header
- [Style] Removed some CSS
- [Style] Added 5 px panning for the menu
- [Style] Added 5 px panning for the mainframe
- [Style] Added 12 pt spacing between menu blocks
- [Style] Moved all current theme files to the default theme
- [Style] Darkened the sidebar from #EEEEEE to #DDDDDD
- [W3C] Fixed an XHTML issue with the news page
- [W3C] Fixed an XHTML Strict issue with the header/height
- [W3C] Fixed an XHTML Strict issue with nowrap
- [Style] Improved the footer by changing HTML into CSS
- [Bug] Removed the base tag
- Removed the breadcrumbs (temporary)
- Moved the “Licensed to” text to the footer
W3C validations
- [W3C] CSS 2.0 valid
- [W3C] CSS 2.1 valid
- [W3C] CSS 3 valid
- [W3C] XHTML 1.0 Strict valid
- [W3C] XHTML 1.1 valid
- [W3C] XHTML + RDFa valid
- [W3C] XHTML Basic 1.0 valid
- [W3C] XHTML Basic 1.1 valid
- [W3C] XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 valid
- [W3C] XHTML-Print 1.0 valid
- [W3C] XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 valid
- [W3C] XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1 valid
There won`t be an XHTML 2 language it seems.
The XHTML2 Working Group charter expires at the end of the year 2009 and will not be extended. This is caused by different opinions within the group.
Most of XHTML 2`s progession will be moved to HTML 5. More information can be found here.
In the six remaining months of its charter, the XHTML2 Working Group wants to focus on making corrections to the XHTML 1.1 specifications
But HTML 5 has also some problems;
- Apple refuses to implement Ogg Theora in Quicktime by default (as used by Safari), citing lack of hardware support and an uncertain patent landscape.
- Google has implemented H.264 and Ogg Theora in Chrome, but cannot provide the H.264 codec license to third-party distributors of Chromium, and have indicated a belief that Ogg Theora’s quality-per-bit is not yet suitable for the volume handled by YouTube.
- Opera refuses to implement H.264, citing the obscene cost of the relevant patent licenses.
- Mozilla refuses to implement H.264, as they would not be able to obtain a license that covers their downstream distributors.
- Microsoft has not commented on their intent to support <video> at all.
And to even make it better, the future of RDFa is still unknown!
But it`s worth to mention that progess has been made with SPARQL. SPARQL is a query language for RDF data on the Semantic Web with formally defined meaning.
The SPARQL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of SPARQL New Features and Rationale. This document provides an overview of the main new features of SPARQL and their rationale. This is an update to SPARQL adding several new features that have been agreed by the SPARQL WG. These language features were determined based on real applications and user and tool-developer experience.
