Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
I believe Dreamweaver-esque. I see myself writing articles and
eventually doing snazzy eye candy layouts. I do not see myself
engaging in elaborate flow control or anything terribly programmatic.
I want to concentrate on the content, not the mechanism.
I've stayed out of this one so far because of a natural disinclination
to join religious discussions, but sine we are now talking good common
sense I'd like to ask whether a *batch-oriented* system for folding
database content into a static web site with common look-and-feel
would be of interest.
Now PyCon is over I've been able to blog about the techniques used to
generate the web site at http://www.holdenweb.com/, and most recently
about using reStructured Text in the database to ease authorship
problems for the less-taxing content. See
http://www.holdenweb.com/blogs/2005/04/versioned-reviews-implemented-po
st.html
to determine whether the overall approach would work for you.
I have 2 goals:
1) to worry about plumbing as little as possible, as I generate articles
and content. Once a framework is established, this can be handled
"cookie cutter."
The purpose of the software is precisely to deliver database content in
a "fully-plumbed" fashion. You still have to maintain the content, and
there are clearly no drag-and-drop tools, but a set of database rows in
a page table is what the system uses to generate www.holdenweb.com.
2) to create a unique brand identity based on good eye candy. For this
part of the problem, the website cannot look generic. At a minimum, I
would need a facility that allows me to painlessly arrange my own 2D
artwork.
That's what stylesheets are for, and this design is fully stylesheet-driven.
regards
Steve
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