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This website is made by and for disabled people and built with Bludit as it is a fairly light weight (low energy) but still very accessible open source content management system (CMS). For the theme, we modified the u theme, to make it the Cozy Night+Day theme, which is more accessible and cute. We did this through not only adding simple night and day gradients for light and dark mode, but more importantly by adding HTML tags so that pages can easily be viewed in the access reader mode of browsers (check out this blog for more info).

We moved to Bludit from Pico CMS as it is slightly more accessible, and so enables members to access the website from a browser and each have an account. This will also hope this will lead us to be able to collaborate more with others when we want to run workshops, write and in making crip infrastructures!

If you find any access issues with the website, do feel able to reach out with requests or queries to the form on the about page.

Below, I will go over how to install the website for yourself as well as use this theme!

Installing Bludit

Bludit is very easy to install (relatively for a CMS) and has pretty good and clear documentation at all levels (from user interface through to API and PHP). Due to these docs being pretty good, here we will just share an accessible overview, how to run it locally and some useful links. 

Install Overview

There are a few ways to install Bludit, the way we went with was running it locally on my system until we had the theme etc setup right and then transferred it to the Cozy-Cloud to be served up here. Then edited the content in the browser and created multiple accounts.

Run locally with PHP Built-in web server

You will be working inside of terminal, probably on Unix (e.g. Linux or Mac), but you can get Linux terminal emulators for Windows.

Install PHP, and some tools by runing this install command:

sudo apt install -y php-fpm php-dom php-mbstring php-cli php-gd php-opcache unzip git

Now you can run Bludit quickly via the command line with the PHP Built-in web server. Just run:

git clone https://github.com/bludit/bludit.git 
cd bludit 
php -S cozy-cloud.net

With your favourite browser, visit the URL `http://localhost:8000`

Useful install links

Cozy Night+Day Theme

This is a custom theme we made for the site, but also free for other to use!

It is made to be very minimal and low energy in the HTML files it makes and sends. It also encodes using tags that enable browser reader mode to automatically make the content more accessible. 

To use it:

  1. Download it as a zip from this Git.
  2. Extract the contents.
  3. Move the extracted folder into the 'bl-themes' folder.
  4. In the admin panel of your Bludit site:
    1. Go to 'Settings>Themes' on the left menu.
    2. Active the theme 'Cozy night+day'

 

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