From c0cb8f7e43d9fe0e4f587abd139191c56ae1d764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lars <lars@systemausfall.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 23:52:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] announce translation web interface

---
 ezmlm-web.css |  6 +++++-
 index.html    | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ezmlm-web.css b/ezmlm-web.css
index caa4eb4..c57672c 100644
--- a/ezmlm-web.css
+++ b/ezmlm-web.css
@@ -85,12 +85,16 @@ font.feature {
 	font-size: 110%;
 	}
 
-#news ul.changes {
+#news .changes {
 	font-size: 90%;
 	margin-top: 0px;
 	padding-top: 0px;
 	}
 
+#news p.changes {
+	padding-left: 2em;
+	}
+
 a:visited {
 	color: #005080;
 	}
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 6a2a177..d9aa804 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@
 <div id="news">
 <h1>News</h1>
 
+<p><font class="title">02007/03/21 - translations made easy</font></p>
+<p class="changes">
+The translations of <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> are now managed via
+a comfortable <a href="https://translate.systemausfall.org/projects/ezmlm_web/">web interface</a> (powered by <a href="http://pootle.wordforge.org">pootle</a>). Just register and contribute some translated strings in your favourite language for the upcoming v3.2 release. Thanks!
+</p>
+
 <p><font class="title">02006/03/26 - <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> <a href="download/ezmlm-web-3.1.4.tar.gz" title="download ezmlm-web 3.1.4">Version 3.1.4 released</a></font>
 <ul class="changes">
 	<li>new setting: DOTQMAIL_DIR (useful for multi domain vpopmail setups)<br/>
@@ -156,24 +162,20 @@
 <div class="push">
 <h2>How can <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> help you?</h2>
 <p><font class="ez"><a href="http://www.ezmlm.org">ezmlm</a></font> uses a mainly
-command line interface for the creation and maintainence
+command line interface for the creation and maintenance
 of mailing lists. While this is very convenient for the average systems 
 administrator who is used to such interfaces, it restrains him from transferring
 administrative work to users who want to manage a community on their own.</p>
 
-<p><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> is an attempt to hide the complexities of managing a mailing list
-behind an intuative, easy to use web based interface. The idea behind this
-is threefold. Firstly just about everyone these days can use a web browser,
-or can learn very quickly. Secondly it provides almost complete platform
-independence on the client side - there are GUI web browsers available for 
-every major modern operating system. Thirdly, and perhaps more importantly,
-it makes easy remote administration a real possibility.</p>
+<p><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> is an attempt to hide the complexities of
+managing a mailing list behind an intuative, easy to use web based interface. Thus
+it makes easy remote administration real.</p>
 
 <p><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> allows the user to easily add and remove
 mailing list subscribers, create and delete mailing lists as well as alter
 the configuration of existing mailing lists. Almost every aspect of the 
-mailing list is controllable through the web front end, allowing the list
-user to do most things without the assistance of the systems administrators.</p>
+mailing list is controllable through the web interface, allowing the list
+user to do everything without the assistance of the systems administrators.</p>
 </div>
 
 
@@ -190,20 +192,20 @@ Some of the important features that <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> offers are
 <li><font class="feature">Name Association</font>
 - <font class="hint">You can enter any RFC 822 email address, and it will display the nice name while refering to the email address.</font></li>
 
-<li><font class="feature">Configurable Interface</font>
+<li><font class="feature">Configurable Design</font>
 - <font class="hint">Most of the &quot;look &amp; feel&quot; of <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> is configured through templates, allowing you to easily integrate it into your existing website.</font></li>
 
 <li><font class="feature">Multiple Subscribes/Unsubscribes</font>
 - <font class="hint"><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> supports file uploads for bulk subscription of email addresses, and multiple selects for bulk deletes.</font></li>
 
 <li><font class="feature">Full support for all command line options</font>
-- <font class="hint"><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> has been updated to take advantage of all the command line features of ezmlm-idx 0.40. And should be compatible with any further releases :-)</font></li>
+- <font class="hint"><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> has been updated to take advantage of all the command line features of ezmlm-idx v5.0. It should be compatible with any further releases :-)</font></li>
 
 <li><font class="feature">Language Independence</font>
 - <font class="hint"><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> can be easily reconfigured for different locales and languages. For now you can only choose between english and german - your contribution for other languages is welcome.</font></li>
 
 <li><font class="feature">Browser Independence</font>
-- <font class="hint"><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> has been tested with <a href="http://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> 1.73, <a href="http://mozilla.org">Firefox</a> 1.0, <a href="http://www.netscape.com/">Netscape Navigator</a> 4.7, <a href="http://lynx.browser.org/">Lynx</a> 2.8.3, <a href="http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng">w3m</a> 0.1.11-pre and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">Internet Explorer</a> 5.0</font></li>
+- <font class="hint"><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> has been tested with <a href="http://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> 1.73, <a href="http://mozilla.org">Firefox</a> 2.0, <a href="http://www.netscape.com/">Netscape Navigator</a> 4.7, <a href="http://lynx.browser.org/">Lynx</a> 2.8.3, <a href="http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng">w3m</a> 0.1.11-pre and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">Internet Explorer</a> 6.0</font></li>
 
 <li><font class="feature">Platform Independence</font>
 - <font class="hint"><font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> should run on any platform that can run <a href="http://www.ezmlm.org/">ezmlm</a>, <a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a> and <a href="http://clearsilver.net">clearsilver</a></font></li>
@@ -238,7 +240,7 @@ file in the distribution.</p>
 <h2>How you can contribute</h2>
 <p>You can help to improve <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> in many ways. Some of them are:</p>
 <ul>
-	<li>translate it to another language (this takes about an hour) - for now English, German and Japanese are available</li>
+	<li>translate it to another language (this takes about two hours) - for now English, German and Japanese are available</li>
 	<li>create a nice stylesheet to improve its appearance</li>
 	<li>send me patches you would like to see incorporated</li>
 	<li>tell me if you find evidences of my poor english tongue on this page</li>
@@ -258,7 +260,7 @@ https://svn.systemausfall.org/svn/ezmlm-web</a>.</p>
 version 2.1. By then it was functionally complete and convenient.</p>
 <p>Since September 02000 no new releases were published.</p>
 <p>In January 02005 Guy handed the project over to me (Lars Kruse). I incorporated the suggestions 
-that were sent to Guy so far. Additional security improvements and translations will be integrated.</p>
+that were sent to Guy so far. Additional security improvements and translations were integrated, too.</p>
 <p>Your suggestions are welcome and will improve <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> whenever possible.</p>
 </div>
 
@@ -266,7 +268,7 @@ that were sent to Guy so far. Additional security improvements and translations
 <div class="push">
 <h2>Some final words ...</h2>
 <p>As I am no native english speaker, I will gladly accept every hint to improve the appearance of this website.</p>
-<p>Nearly every line of <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> was written by <a href="http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/">Guy Antony Halse</a> - thanks a lot for this work!</p>
+<p>Most of the code of <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font> was written by <a href="http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/">Guy Antony Halse</a> - thanks a lot for this work!</p>
 <p>If you have any suggestions regarding <font class="ez">ezmlm-web</font>, please send a mail to <font class="mail">ezmlm-web[AT]sumpfralle.de</font>.</p>
 </div>
 
@@ -279,3 +281,4 @@ that were sent to Guy so far. Additional security improvements and translations
 
 </body>
 </html>
+