I wrote a static blog exporter several years back for TW explanation of it here: http://welford.github.io/twstaticblog/example/example.html which itself exports to: http://welford.github.io/twstaticblog/example/blog-styled/index.html and http://welford.github.io/twstaticblog/example/blog-basic/index.html
i also use it for my personal blog here http://www.phasersonkill.com/ The thing is pretty flexible once you have it setup, most of what you want could be achieved. " a sort of carousel widget with single sections from the book, with arrows left and right to flip through them." might require a little extra work though. On Saturday, 12 June 2021 at 14:45:19 UTC+1 TW Tones wrote: > As much as I value WordPress my personal belief is tiddlywiki would be > ideal, I would start with others book style wikis to get going. > > I understand the value of static websites for search may be valuable > however the interactive wiki offers much more. The compromise would be a > static site on which every page link opens the interactive wiki, add a > splash screen to inform them you are loading the whole book for easy search. > > I started building a template to support this but not completed it yet. > Hopefully someone has done it and can share a revised template for its > export. > If you can serve a node implementation securely on the internet would be > better and it can automatically serve both static and interactive content. > > By the way 70,000 words with an average length 490,000 characters, Not > even half a Megabyte is trivial, I have happily used 6-12Mb single file > wikis without any concern. > > Tones > > On Friday, 11 June 2021 at 23:03:06 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> As much as I love TiddlyWiki and think it could work for your use cases, >> I feel I would be remiss to not point out another option: *WordPress* >> >> >> >> On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 7:37:42 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote: >> >>> Hi Kosmaton >>> >>> You could use TiddlyWiki in node.js, and export and upload tiddlers to >>> your free webhosting service as static htmls, no database needed. With some >>> CSS, you could design it as you wish, in a way that it doesn't look >>> TiddlyWiki-ish, and there are plugins to make the layout mobile-friendly. >>> The book page, home page and news page are all doable. The book page could >>> be handled with details elements (HTML, not the details widget plugin) and >>> transclusions. So yes, everything you mentioned can be done. >>> >>> Alternately, you could do the same with a regular standalone TW uploaded >>> to your free webhosting service. Doing it as a standalone means the opening >>> page would not load as quickly as a small static html page, but most people >>> wouldn't notice the difference, and it would give you many more options for >>> how to handle the book page, for example the table of contents feature in >>> TiddlyWiki. >>> >>> What might not work, though I may be wrong, is having a user comments >>> section, but then you did not mention that. I know there is at least one >>> user comments plugin, but I haven't played with it. >>> >>> On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:28:54 PM UTC-5 Kosmaton wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Tiddly people, >>>> >>>> I'm meaning to create a new website, and I'd like to ask your opinion >>>> whether TiddlyWiki is the right tool (or one of the tools) for it. >>>> >>>> I used to have a pre-TW5 site on TiddlySpace back in the day. I'm >>>> semi-programming-and-webdesign-literate, in an ad hoc and rusty way. No >>>> experience with databases unfortunately, which may be relevant. >>>> >>>> The website I have in mind would be a combination of a non-fiction book >>>> (already written, but expandable/changeable), and an associated blog. The >>>> book is organized as a big tree of numbered paragraphs/sections: 1, 1.1, >>>> 1.1.1, 1.2, 2, 2.1 etc. These sections frequently refer to one another; >>>> it's a hypertext in itself. >>>> >>>> * The site would mainly need to have: >>>> >>>> 1) a page that displays the book, with a Table of Contents. >>>> - The TOC should be hideable as a whole. >>>> - The branches of the TOC should be collapsible, i.e. click on 1 to >>>> show 1.1 and 1.2, click again to hide them, etc. >>>> - It may be excessive to load all the text of the book (all the >>>> sections) into the viewport (some 70,000 words). But it would be nice if >>>> the reader saw a bit more than just the section they're currently reading. >>>> Basically a pdf-reader-like experience would be good. >>>> - optional: Sections of the book may get revisions, and the visitor >>>> should be able to see the revisions. (This would probably get a lot more >>>> complicated if I want to allow for reordering, deletion and creation of >>>> sections...) >>>> - The book currently exists as a LibreOffice Writer .odt file, with >>>> sections actually organized as headings. Ideally I'd like to automate the >>>> process of getting them into the TiddlyWiki. >>>> >>>> 2) a blog/news page >>>> - Blog posts are expected to regularly contain links to book >>>> sections, or entire transcluded sections. >>>> - Posts must be able to acommodate audio files; a regular HTML <audio >>>> controls> seems sufficient. >>>> >>>> 3) a Home page that could e.g. display >>>> - the most recent blog post (truncated if necessary) >>>> - a sort of carousel widget with single sections from the book, with >>>> arrows left and right to flip through them. These sections could be either >>>> randomly taken from the whole book, or from a hand-picked subset of >>>> sections (which I should be able to adjust). >>>> >>>> * The thing really ought to be 'responsive', i.e. look fine on small >>>> screens too. This might not be obvious for something like the TOC. >>>> >>>> * Towards the visitor it should not present a very TiddlyWikish face. >>>> I'm keen to acknowledge/praise/recommend TW in the About page; but the >>>> casual visitor should not focus on the underlying tech. >>>> >>>> * I don't intend to have a server of my own. The free webhost I've >>>> happily used before allows for up to 2 databases, with a choice between >>>> "5.7-MySQL . 10.5-MariaDB . 13.2-PgSQL". >>>> >>>> So: >>>> >>>> Does this sound feasible with TW5 as a base? (Or would you suggest some >>>> other framework? If it's /challenging/ with TW, but /easy&fun/ with XYZ, >>>> I'd like to hear about XYZ too! :) >>>> >>>> How would I set this up as far as server / databases etc. go? >>>> >>>> If I go ahead with this, there's bound to be more detailed questions >>>> regarding the functionalities mentioned above; but if you already see any >>>> immediate solutions (plugins, say) please shout. >>>> >>>> Apologies for the length of this post. I don't expect anyone to figure >>>> all this out for me, but any thoughts are very welcome. Many thanks in >>>> advance! >>>> >>>> K. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/742d1568-581b-49ca-87d7-deae9696323an%40googlegroups.com.
