Comments on: Prototype 1 http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/ Forum and Think Tank for sharing ideas about a simple Content Management System Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-12 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:38:37 +0100 http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-12 Regarding the assignment of templates to pages. I played around with a few ideas including the &lt;?xml-stylesheet processing instruction. What I have settled for in prototype 2 is a simple element in each page called &lt;template&gt; which means the template can be changed easily by the user. There is a discussion of the problematic <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-wxxm2/index.html" rel="nofollow">on IBM developerWorx</a>. Regarding the assignment of templates to pages. I played around with a few ideas including the <?xml-stylesheet processing instruction. What I have settled for in prototype 2 is a simple element in each page called <template> which means the template can be changed easily by the user. There is a discussion of the problematic on IBM developerWorx.

]]> by: Administrator http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-11 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:31:46 +0100 http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-11 The publishing process is serial like CityDesk. You work on your site (xml files) and then press "Preview" or "Publish" which builds the entire site and optionally publishes via FTP. Bear in mind we're talking about small 1-man sites here so a build should be less than a minute. The GUI is still a challenge to be faced. Currently, my main interest lies in bringing a page together (prototype 2 is coming up!!!). I could do with some suggestions and support on the GUI. I hate re-inventing the wheel and coding forms so I have been considering some automated solutions. One would be a DTD2FORM function which creates a HTML Form for editing the XML Document. Another possibility is "Explorer Integration". A user would simply browse the file system, right click on a page or component and choose "Edit". With desktop.ini and customized folders you can make the whole experience very user friendly. If there is gonna be any coding it's gotta be VBS/HTA because this runs automatically on any Windows machine. The publishing process is serial like CityDesk. You work on your site (xml files) and then press “Preview” or “Publish” which builds the entire site and optionally publishes via FTP. Bear in mind we’re talking about small 1-man sites here so a build should be less than a minute.

The GUI is still a challenge to be faced. Currently, my main interest lies in bringing a page together (prototype 2 is coming up!!!).

I could do with some suggestions and support on the GUI. I hate re-inventing the wheel and coding forms so I have been considering some automated solutions. One would be a DTD2FORM function which creates a HTML Form for editing the XML Document. Another possibility is “Explorer Integration”. A user would simply browse the file system, right click on a page or component and choose “Edit”. With desktop.ini and customized folders you can make the whole experience very user friendly. If there is gonna be any coding it’s gotta be VBS/HTA because this runs automatically on any Windows machine.

]]> by: Jeremy http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-10 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:50:38 +0100 http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-10 Wouldn't it be better if there was someway to dynamically crawl the pages of the site and there be some text file or naming convnention to specify the type of template a page came from so that when it came to regenerating pages this could be done by clicking one button? Wouldn’t it be better if there was someway to dynamically crawl the pages of the site and there be some text file or naming convnention to specify the type of template a page came from so that when it came to regenerating pages this could be done by clicking one button?

]]> by: Jeremy http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-7 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:20:06 +0100 http://1mancms.blogsome.com/2005/10/02/prototype-1/#comment-7 This all looks good by how do I as a user go about changing a page? There'll need to be some kind of a GUI in order for basic users to edit pages and then are those pages required to be regenerated? If the user edits a component would each page where that component is used need to be regenerated? This all looks good by how do I as a user go about changing a page? There’ll need to be some kind of a GUI in order for basic users to edit pages and then are those pages required to be regenerated? If the user edits a component would each page where that component is used need to be regenerated?

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