Why Zulu?

There are many opinions on how to create a good website. The following paragraph illustrates the authors point of view:

A good website has the following properties:

• Browser-independent: The website can be viewed using any common web browser.
• Screen-independent: The website can be viewed using various screen and window sizes.
• Printer-friendly: Each page within the website is available in a printer-friendly version.
• Transparent URLs: Any webpage is bookmarkable. A link to a specific page can be sent by email or added to a document.
• Search-engine compatible: Each webpage can be found and indexed by a search engine.
• No frames or scripts.
• Each page can be saved on a local computer.
• Fast page presentation, no links with images etc.
• A good website has no plug-ins, applets, animations or java scripts.

The following considerations are important when creating and maintaining a website:

• Minimized amount of maintenance-labor and -costs.
• Possibility of maintaining the website using any remote computer.
  • No special tools (FrontPage, GoLive, Photoshop etc.) need to be installed in order to maintain the website.
  • The website behaves the same whether accessed on the local file system or on the web server.
• Independence of software tools such as 'Microsoft FrontPage', 'Adobe GoLive', 'Adobe Photoshop' etc.
• Layout, structure and content are clearly separated.
• The person updating the content can not accidentally damage the structure or layout.
• Updates to the content require minimum technical knowledge.
• Version control: The website must be compatible to common version control systems such as CVS or Visual Source Save which allow comprehensible change-archiving.
• Possibility of previewing different versions of the website.
• Control over the HTML source code.
• HTML-based: HTML is widely established and won't change significantly within the next years. It is easier to explain the 10 most important HTML-tags to an office clerk than a tool such as 'FrontPage'.

If you share these views then Zulu is probably the right tool for you.