The Sabots Libres website, its predecessor and other associated sites have been running on WordPress® for many years now - and with success. The platform is much more intuitive and lends itself far more easily to tweaking than the other established "CMS" systems such as Drupal and Joomla. After building a Joomla site for someone else, I vowed "never again" and having had a small foray onto Drupal with two of my own sites, I decided any shortcomings of WordPress were a worthwhile price to pay for all the ease that it otherwise offered.
And once established as a WordPress user, I settled down to adapting one of the most comprehensive and well thought out themes to my needs. Sayontan Sinha's "Suffusion" is little short of magical. So imagine the dismay at finding the gurus at Wordpress have suspended his theme because it does not make use of their own, highly irritating, configurator but rather uses its own intuitive one.
Although not currently necessary, there will undoubtedly come a moment when Suffusion will start causing problems in other parts of the site and Sabots Libres and associate sites will be obliged to move over to something else.
The Sabots Libres English language site is more or less at the stage that an enforced move can be implemented - and the differences can be seen in the picture above. Not a radical change, happily, but a little different nevertheless.
When it has to go live, we hope you find the new theme as pleasing as we found the old one.