NGO Bulgaria

NGO Bulgaria aims to promote Bulgarian social non-government organisations (NGOs) and social movements on the Internet, with the help of ressources to facilitate the use of information and communication technologies, such as the creation of a web site and the use of e-mail as part of the tools that support their activities. NGO Bulgaria is an initiative of the Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation (IRBF). (continue)

NGO Bulgaria provides a basic site, e-mail addresses and mailing-lists to social non-governmental organisations in Bulgaria and in the Balkans. (continue)

As the the NGO Bulgaria project evolves, so does our perception on how to initiate people to web publishing. This documents represent a guide, which covers a few basic ideas of what to expect from your first website, and a few common mistakes to avoid. (continue)

The NGO-bg Project is open to all Bulgarian social non-governmental organisation and social movements. To apply, please read the following guidelines. (continue)

The main objective of NGO Bulgaria is to support the ICT needs of Bulgarian social NGOs and regional NGOs from the balkans. Here is a list of web sites part of the NGO Bulgaria initiative. (continue)

Netiquette guidelines are recommendations of good practices for e-mail and mailing lists for efficient communication. (continue)

Overview of what is Free Software and its impacts the non-governmental sector (ethics, culture, transparency, etc.). (continue)

Internet or network terminology may sound obscure and confusing, but they usually have a parallel meaning to other terms we use in our everyday environment. (continue)

To register (or purchase) a web domains, such as www.example.org, you must use the services of a web domain registrar. There are many domain registrars in Bulgaria, such as DomBG (for .org, .net, .com, etc.), register.bg (for .bg), etc. (continue)

Overview of the Web Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It aims to provide an introduction to accessibility issues for authors of small or medium size websites. (continue)

How to show recent news and articles from another site, into your website. (continue)

Bulgarian translation of the user’s manual for the GNOME desktop environment, often found on GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu. The manual provides good methodological information on how to work in the GNOME desktop environment. (continue)

Configuring your NGO-bg site is not as difficult as it sounds. In many cases, it is similar to creating sections and publishing articles, but with a few tricks that will allow to better adapt your site to your needs. (continue)

Listing navigation menus in a specific order; Changing the title and subtitle at the top of every page; Syndicating news from other websites; Featuring an article; Internationalisation issues; How to allow anybody to propose articles in the private area; How to add a feedback icon at the bottom of every page. (continue)

Introduction text; Different templates; Default language presented to the visitor. (continue)

This covers everything from the template used to list articles inside a section, to special tricks that can be applied to articles so that they are more interactive. (continue)

"Content Type" keywords allows you to associate articles from many sections into one theme. The visitor can then see related articles to what he/she is reading and browse the archives by keywords, in addition of having archives by section. (continue)

In a dynamic site, where information is in constant movement, it is very important that your visitors have an easy way to find an article that they have read in the past. Archives are presented by section and, optionally, by "content type" (theme). (continue)

Since your visitors may forget to visit your site regularly, especially when it is not updated at regular intervals, you can offer them a way to subscribe to a mailing-list, in order to receive a bulletin of new articles for a given time interval. (continue)

To create an accessible site, you must consider that your visitors may not have a good vision, they may be blind, they may have difficulty using a mouse, etc. This section provides a few resources about accessibility resources and explains what features are present in our templates to be more accessible. (continue)

As you get better acquinted with SPIP and the concepts supporting it, you may want to add a feature that is not present in the templates. For example, to make them more colorful, to create a new layout for your sections, etc. (continue)