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A project I have been working on recently is http://www.wfd-duesseldorf.de/ (sorry, only in German) which is running on CMS made simple 0.13 with the following special features, modules and enhancements:

Things that are in use:
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- CMS made simple 0.13
- FrontEndUsers
- Glossary-/FAQ-module
- Upload-module
- accessibility menu (modified)
- two user-defined tags (contact-forms)
- piSearch (old version, used as a tag)
- clean URLs where possible (via .htaccess and self-made)
- lightbox.js for image pop-ups (unobtrusive)
- unobtrusive JavaScript pop-ups

However, these are only the standards that are in use. There is more behind the scenes like for example the WFDI-module that has been designed to meet the special requirements of our client and which offers an XML-interface for the biggest real estate portal on the German market (Immobilien Scout 24) so that they have a single-source-solution for all real estate objects: CMS made simple.

Of course we spent a lot of time to make the whole system as accessible as possible using a CSS framework and some nifty tricks. However there are some limitations: The layout itself is fixed but there will be a scalable version coming soon (with styleswitcher). Hope you like it and if you have questions, post them here.

Regards,
Nils

Very well done. I really like it, lovely website. There was a time when I spoke some german, however that was years ago but I was still able to follow it a bit. My personal fancy is for text to be full justified cuz IMHO its looks much better than to have a ragged left or right margin but thats just a personal fancy. As I said before well done. CHEERS!!!!!

Thank you both. At present we are working on an XXL-style-version for visually impaired users and we hope to have it ready by the end of this week. Has anybody experience with a style switcher in PHP for CMSMS?

Regards,
Nils

That is very nice. Simple and sophisticated. Very easy to navigate, especially for me since it has been almost 4 years since I really spoke German on a regular basis.

One thing you and/or your client might want to note is listing full email addresses on the website. That is begging for Spam. Harvesters will pick-up on those email addresses and bombard those emails with Spam (if they haven't started yet). Your best bet is to create a form for each of them or creating a form where you can select the person you want to email within a single form. That way the emails can't be harvested.

Is the left menu dynamically generated in CMSMS?

tyman00,

thanks for the nice words. We tried to put as much accessibility into this portal as possible - including simple to understand navigation and contents. E-Mail harvesters are not a big problem since the mail-server uses greylisting and hence only a few spam mails per month will make it to the inbox of each user.

Back to your question: Yes, the menu is dynamically created using menu-manager. It was kind of difficult but thanks to Teds great invention of MenuManger it was possible at last. You can use accessibility-menu as a starting point and some smarty-logic to achieve this.

Regards,
Nils