Hi all, I know it has taken some time, but I have managed to secure some funds for the future development of Aegir or an Aegir like interface. We have now over 100 users looking after content using this system so it would be a real shame and a major headache if it disappeared entirely.
We would like to propose some changes and bug fixes to Aegir and to see its reinstatement for active development. You comments and additions to Aegir would be most appreciated and if the developers are happy to do this, we may be able to fund some of your changes as well as the ones listed as well. Of the new features we need: - The HTML Area interface to be brought up to date and to be XHTML compliant (and to be given a bit of an aesthetic makeover) - Site wide defined maximum age for news and articles i.e. when a page is created or updated a date is stored that reflects when the page will be out of date as defined by a configuration setting (rather than through approve). Out of date pages would be automatically suspended and a holding page put in place. The owner of the page and the site administrator would be automatically emailed a set number of days before the page is suspended and again when the page is suspended. Keeps people on their toes and the content of the site up to date. - The option to make mandatory the input of defined user details - e.g. name, email address etc. When mandatory, the user details page would pop up on first login into the site and wont go away until details are filled in. - Word html filter/squasher. Most of our users use MS Word and like to copy word content directly into the htmlarea. This results in no end of issues and headaches as we all know that Word's implementation of html is far from perfect. We really need a way of simplifying, cleaning up and making xhtml compliant the word html, or a way/option of getting rid of the html all together and treating the cut and paste from word as a plain text file. - Image and document management needs to be refined a bit. At the moment we treat all documents as images and this poses some issues, especially with the renaming and organisation of documents. - The tables property body could do with a lick of paint as well. Maybe reorganising how the table is created to make it easier for users to understand. - cols, rows, width, spacing, border etc all as individual entries on the page with drop down lists of options for some? A selected table should also be able to be edited though the same means. If a table is presented as a percentage width, when it is resized in htmlarea, can it maintain its percentage width rather than reverting to a fixed width? - Table cells - can they be manually resized as well? Maybe as a percentage rather than a fixed width? - Providing easier facilities to ensure that content is standards and WIA compliant? For example that inserting an image asks for an alt tag, and a table for a description etc. - Applying stylesheet elements to html tags though the UI? These sort of changes could be implemented with a user defined stylesheet element stored by a special name in styles for example. The htmlarea would read and list these styles for the user to use? Or perhaps a list of defined styles could be added that can be changed though the use of a stylesheet? - Easier way to link between internal pages to avoid duplication of a page. Page links at the moment have bee depreciated haven't they? - Improve the efficiency and speed of the Aegir core? Faster ways of displaying the lists of pages and site groups etc? - Anyway to take ownership to the granularity of a single page, rather than a topic? - Documentation for users and developers Ok that's enough for now. Your comments on these would be most appreciated and any additional features to be added. With the good graces of the development team, Aegir might be given a new breath of life :-) Cheers Mike ---------------------------------------------------- Michael Ross - Pan Leeds Web Developer Health Informatics Service����� Tel: (0113) 305 7416 2nd Floor������ ������� ������� Fax: (0113) 305 7398 North West House West Park Ring Road West Park Leeds LS16 6QG --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
