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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:43:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Free web build tools</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,521,525#msg-525</link>
      <author>SteveC</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Following up on Aba's well-made points about information planning and design, another important requirement for these DIY tools to work is that a group has a champion/technical enthusiast for keeping the site maintained.  Even tools like Wordpress don't entirely eliminate the need for some technical understanding to fix stuff that goes wrong or customise the layout. When I analyze projects I've been involved with to see which have succeeded and which have failed, the good ones have the champion and the failures have assumed that somehow the technology will do everything.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:43:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Free web build tools</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,521,524#msg-524</link>
      <author>abamaison</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello Penge-Com and welcome to the forums. 
Whilst I haven't used the specific tools you mention I have used other hosted web building tools. 
Assuming groups have thought through things like why they want a website in the first place, how they are going to maintain it, backing up content, accessibility and other issues touched on in the knowledgebase article here: 
http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/youronlinepresencebasics, these tools can be great. As ever, always important to read the terms of service.

Very interested to hear your thoughts on the limitations of Weebly.com and doodlekit if you've used them. doodlekit.com claims to produce accessible, standards compliant code and both seem reasonably easy to use. 

A limitation with pretty much any web building tools is that in the wrong hands it's also entirely possible to produce sites with poor design, usability, accessibility etc.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:39:01 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Free web build tools</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,521,523#msg-523</link>
      <author>penge-com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yes, Wordpress is excellent. I just think that, for beginners, it can be difficult to configure as a website and slightly complicated to use.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:34:58 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Free web build tools</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,521,522#msg-522</link>
      <author>iangoodman</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Not used either of these tools so would be interested to know other peoples experiences.

Also worth considering using wordpress. Although predominantly aimed at blogs it can also be used to build websites. For an example have a look at http://www.lasa.org.uk/ictchampion, for more information go to http://www.wordpress.com]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:22:25 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Free web build tools</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,521,521#msg-521</link>
      <author>penge-com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Does anyone have experience using free online web build tools like Weebly.com and doodlekit.com?

There are some shortcomings but they seem to offer an easy way for small orgs to get online. 

Any thoughts?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:32:07 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Software] Free Open Source software</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?21,519,519#msg-519</link>
      <author>iangoodman</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I came across this on the ukriders list - http://freeopensourcesoftware.org/index.php?title=Main_Page and thought it might be useful to people.

Although only a small amount of information on the wiki at the moment there is sure to be more added so worth keeping an eye on.]]></description>
      <category>Software</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon,  7 Jul 2008 11:05:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Software] Project35: Free Open Source Data Management Tools for NGOs and Scientific Projects doing Work in the Developing World</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?21,518,518#msg-518</link>
      <author>canadian_kev</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We’re Kevin Garwood and Chris Garwood, the main developers of the Project35 software project.  We would like to announce the debut release of Project35 v1.0, which is freely available at 

http://www.project35software.org

Project35 is a free, open-source software suite that is designed to generate data entry applications based on XML Schemas.  The purpose of the project is to provide simple robust data management tools that could help humanitarian and scientific organisations which have interests in the developing world. We feel the software could be applied to areas of disaster response, disease outbreaks, conservation studies, activities related to the clearance of mine fields, and the displacement of people through conflict.  Our website shows examples of how our main application can be used to produce data entry tools that suite areas such as: 
•Shelter assessment for disaster response, derived from guidelines produced by the Sphere Project (http://www.sphereproject.org)
•Food security assessment for disaster response, derived from guidelines produced by the Sphere Project (http://www.sphereproject.org)
•Education in Emergencies Assessment, derived from guidelines produced by the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) (http:// www.ineesite.org)
•Separate applications for tracking outbreaks of avian flu, lyme disease, meningococcal, derived from forms produced by the Utah Department of Health and the UK’s Health Protection Agency
•Data entry forms for documenting medicinal plants, derived from a project idea for harmonising data collection efforts to suit pharmacologists and traditional medicine practitioners (http:/uk.geocities.com/zaredbaron/pnn/pnn.html)
•Bioterrorism investigations, derived from forms made by the Utah Department of Health.
•Survey for Land Mine Clearance, derived from survey forms developed by IMAS (http://www.minestandards.org)

All of these examples of data entry applications are posted on our web site.  If you end up using Project35, we would be happy to include your data entry application on the site so that the general community can use them as well.
We’d like to stress that we’ve spent months developing the tool without being paid by anyone.  We also don’t expect that we’ll make a lucrative living by selling software which is already free!  However, we do hope that the software encourages the development of a global community of humanitarian workers and software developers who actively discuss software requirements in the areas we’ve mentioned.  If you’d like to share your software needs with us, please let us know.  

Meanwhile, enjoy the software!
- Kevin and Chris]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:07:06 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Hardware] Re: Hiring of PCs and Laptops</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?24,516,517#msg-517</link>
      <author>abamaison</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello and welcome to the forums. Depending on what you're training on, how many people etc., you might be better off just hiring a computer training suite. We've used Happy Computers (http://www.happy.co.uk/) in the past but there are others. 
If hiring a computer suite doesn't work for you, a quick Google search on &quot;computer equipment hire london&quot; gives a number of options.

Hope this helps and do let us know how you get on.]]></description>
      <category>Hardware</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:48:49 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Hardware] Hiring of PCs and Laptops</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?24,516,516#msg-516</link>
      <author>UKCISA1</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Does anyone know how/where to hire hardware for one-off training?]]></description>
      <category>Hardware</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:58:46 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[ICT Management] Re: Welcome to the ICT Management discussion forum</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?11,36,515#msg-515</link>
      <author>carsav</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks very much will have a look]]></description>
      <category>ICT Management</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:57:42 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[ICT Management] Re: Welcome to the ICT Management discussion forum</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?11,36,514#msg-514</link>
      <author>abamaison</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The framework here: http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/itstrategyframework provides a good start and there are heaps of other articles in the knowledgebase ICT Management strategy and planning section here: http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/strategyplanning that will hopefully be of use.

Aba@lasa]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:22:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[ICT Management] Re: Welcome to the ICT Management discussion forum</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?11,36,513#msg-513</link>
      <author>carsav</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi I need to write an IT Strategy. Anyone got any tips, templates or advice please.]]></description>
      <category>ICT Management</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:15:58 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Domain Name Registrars</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,510,511#msg-511</link>
      <author>JasonKing</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I've used Names.co.uk for years and found them very reliable. Their hosting packages aren't expensive. They're quick to respond and fix problems.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed,  4 Jun 2008 01:12:11 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Domain Name Registrars</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,510,510#msg-510</link>
      <author>cbelow</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi everybody,
I'd like to hear from other people who they used as Domain Name Registrars and what their experience with them is. 
I'm especially interested in quality of support, security, billing, that sort of stuff.

I have or administer domains with ukreg (fasthosts) and telivo.

Telivo 
A client of mine holds several domains with them and their account got recently hacked. telivo's reaction was pretty poor. the hackers changed the password, redirected all domains but prior to that changed the account holders e-mail address, so no notifications ever reached the actual owner. I discovered it only hours after it happened (pure coincidence) and contacted Telivo by e-mail, website form and New Password request. none of which went through, since the account holders e-mail address was required as authentication and I didnt happen to have the hackers e-mail address. It got sorted out by phone in the end, by bullying them into submission- all of which left me with the certainty that it's somebody running this from their bedroom. very unprofessional.

UKREG
I haven't had any bad experience with them so far and I host quite a lot of domains with them. but recently complaints about their security have crept up in different webmaster forums.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue,  3 Jun 2008 21:04:52 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Web hosting</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,116,509#msg-509</link>
      <author>cbelow</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I've had clients with a few different commercial hosting packages for quite simple CMS run on a LAMP:
Pipex quite some time ago. I left them, because their technicians were not quite up to it (two years ago. might have changed), also they were quite expensive in comparison for what I needed. 
Hostgator currently for several people. they are quite good, but recently they had security issues and force-changed everybody's password without a warning. it was difficult getting it back actually, especially since most of my clients hold all hosting and domain name ownership. So I had to get them to jump through all their hoops. At least they care about security- just not about their clients.
Heartinternet. well, I think they are a bit slow and old-school, but I never had any real problems with them, so I dont know how their support is.

I agree with JasonKing on choosing more established hosting companies. As much as I'd like to say something else, when things go wrong (and they do), the company needs to have the resources to deal with thousands of their clients wanting help at the same time.
Many hosting companies have forums (just google for it) to offer peer support (which is cheap for them). There you can find out about the companies' support culture.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue,  3 Jun 2008 20:30:19 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Databases] Re: ICT Projects</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?22,506,508#msg-508</link>
      <author>JamesW</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Aba 

Thanks for the information. I've used the ICT Hub website quite alot recently - it has been really helpful when putting together our project brief. 

The article about KVN and Django (although not quite the same as what we are hoping to acheive) was very interesting and certainly gave me some food for thought!

Many thanks once again.

Best Wishes
James]]></description>
      <category>Databases</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:55:41 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Databases] Re: ICT Projects</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?22,506,507#msg-507</link>
      <author>aba</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You might be interested in this article on the knowledgebase which describes how an organisation in Kettering did something vaguely similar, it may well be that it's possible to adapt the platform they used for your purposes and they might be willing to talk about their experience http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/django. 

Also came across this website recently that seems to have similar aims http://www.communitiestogether.org.uk/.

There's also general information on the knowledgebase about things to think about when getting a website or database that you might find useful.

The suppliers directory is a potential source of trusted consultants, database and web developers who may be able to help http://www.suppliersdirectory.org.uk/.

Hope this helps.]]></description>
      <category>Databases</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:02:16 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Databases] ICT Projects</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?22,506,506#msg-506</link>
      <author>JamesW</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I work for The National Association of Decorative &amp; Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS). We are a nfp membership organisation with approx 90,000 members and over 340 member Societies. We are about to embark on a major ICT project. Our intention is to have an integrated database used by our staff and volunteers at our head office and that can be accessed remotely by our member Societies in order for them to update their details and those of their members. 

Has anyone recently gone through or is going through a project such as this and if so would you be willing for me to contact you in order share your experience. 

I am an 'accidental techie' and would appreciate any advice you can give!]]></description>
      <category>Databases</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:23:52 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: sample website project plan</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,504,505#msg-505</link>
      <author>aba</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Not specifically directed at websites or colleges, you may find the general information on project management here: http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/practicalprojectplanning, http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/whatisprojectmanagement useful. The principles can be applied to any project. Information on writing a website brief here: http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/websitebrief.

A quick search on Google turned up other examples including this one http://websitetips.com/planmanage/

Hope this helps]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:30:18 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] sample website project plan</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,504,504#msg-504</link>
      <author>mutari</author>
      <description><![CDATA[where can i find sample website project management plan for a college? please advice.

thanks.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:52:46 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Which tools to choose for a local volunteering website?</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,498,503#msg-503</link>
      <author>s_rule</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry to hijack this thread slightly but would be interested in people's experiences of Drupal.

I have been making some content and category changes to a Drupal site and am interested in developing drupal knowledge more.

Would be interested to hear other peoples experiences of Drupal.

Thanks]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:49:01 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Using wikis</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,502,502#msg-502</link>
      <author>s_rule</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Of all the new Web 2.0 technologies, for more information see http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/web2 it seems that wikis have not really been used at present by the voluntary and community sector.

I have always thought these could be a useful tool and would be interested in hearing peoples experiences (good and bad) in the use of wikis.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:50:18 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Which tools to choose for a local volunteering website?</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,498,501#msg-501</link>
      <author>SteveC</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I wondered about civicrm. However, I looked at it recently as a possible solution for a drupal project and came to the conclusion that it was going to be so much work getting it to look right that it was more trouble than it was worth.  If you are working within a pre-existing theme/visual design, civicrm may very well not sit comfortably with it.
As it happens I'm currently working on a project that involves matching people to activities. This is being done using drupal cck (content construction kit) that allows you to create specific content types. You might create  types opportunity/person/match and also create some tagging vocabularies (built into Drupal) to markup the opportunities, making them easy to search.  I did some work a while ago for Coventry cvs relating to the doit database and reckon everything there could be done in drupal.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:24:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Which tools to choose for a local volunteering website?</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,498,500#msg-500</link>
      <author>JasonKing</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the advice Steve,

The more I read about Drupal the more I think it's the way to go. But although I've found a module for matching volunteers to events, and CiviCRM can match people to date-specific activities, I haven't found anything to match people to general opportunities.

I like the confidence with which you say &quot;it's a fairly straightforward exercise&quot;! Do you know a good Drupal developer by any chance?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:32:33 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Which tools to choose for a local volunteering website?</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,498,499#msg-499</link>
      <author>SteveC</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The short answer is - yes - Drupal can do most of this using existing modules.  I'd have to check if there are modules for doing the matching stuff but if not, it's a fairly straightforward exercise to write modules to do what you need.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:37:49 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Which tools to choose for a local volunteering website?</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,498,498#msg-498</link>
      <author>JasonKing</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'd appreciate some advice on which tools to choose.

A new website will support volunteering (on-site and virtual) within a particular geographical area and will provide the following services:

- matching volunteers to organisations' specific volunteering opportunities (similar to doit.org.uk or IT4communities but smaller in scope)

- matching nonprofits with questions to local professionals who can give pro bono advice (lawyers, techies, accountants etc)

- a forum for volunteers and orgs to discuss a wide range of issues

- a CMS to manage information such as news, pages, links and stored documents

- a calendar of community events

I can think of great tools to do all these tasks but the problem is that I don't want people to have to use multiple usernames and passwords to login to different areas. I'm looking for an all-in-one, mostly-out-of-the-box, integrated solution. Preferably open source, preferably PHP/MySQL, doesn't necessarily have to be free.

Can Drupal modules do all these tasks? Can anyone suggest anything else? What have you used? The budget would allow for some development work, if necessary.

Jason King
www.kingjason.co.uk]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:11:30 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Free website translation – thoughts please??</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,477,497#msg-497</link>
      <author>jackym</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I checked with Aba using the Free website translation to translate English into Spanish one of our ICT documents and it seem to cope in an average way even though it did do literal translation which is difficult with text that has a lot of technical concepts and phrases.  I would use it only as a draft document just to get the gist of the document.

Not bad for free translation.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:46:44 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Free website translation – thoughts please??</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,477,496#msg-496</link>
      <author>aba</author>
      <description><![CDATA[No experience of using the tool but ... it will depend on what it is you want to translate, what language(s) and the community / audience it's directed at. Literal translations of text don't always make sense. So for example if you're attempting to translate legal information an automated tool may well have severe limitations.

If you know any speakers of other languages, the easiest thing might be to see how well the online translation tool copes with translating a paragraph of typical text, and a page of your website before implementing it on your site. 

In the absence of anyone with direct experience of using the tool, having someone who understands the language in question is probably your best bet.

As a quick experiment, we used the tool to translate a page on our site into Italian and Spanish. Verdict on Italian (from someone who speaks a little Italian) wasn't great. Will run it past a fluent Spanish speaker I know when they're next around and post the result back here if that helps.]]></description>
      <category>Your Online Presence</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue,  8 Apr 2008 16:55:28 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Your Online Presence] Re: Free website translation – thoughts please??</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,477,495#msg-495</link>
      <author>Bob.cally</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Does anybody have any idea about this translation tool??]]></description>
      <category>Your Online Presence</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?20,477,495#msg-495</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue,  8 Apr 2008 15:34:22 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>[Accessibility &amp; Inclusion] Re: creating accessible pdf's</title>
      <link>http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?12,492,494#msg-494</link>
      <author>s_rule</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We tried to use the pdf you linked to but found it to be hard work to get through. 

There is though a knowledgebase article: An introduction to PDF Accessibility - http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/accessiblepdf. which links to resources as well as tips for reading PDF documents.]]></description>
      <category>Accessibility &amp; Inclusion</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/forums/read.php?12,492,494#msg-494</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon,  7 Apr 2008 11:39:44 +0100</pubDate>
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