Hi Graham Thanks for your advice on this, I am off and running. Thanks very much as well for your excellent book-Patrick
Graham Higgins wrote: > On Jan 16, 2:23 pm, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Is there an example App anywhere that is suitable >> for 0.9.7 and that would provide examples of everything needed for a >> publishable site, such as images etc? >> > > I'm afraid that there isn't such a beast at the moment, possibly > because there are many different ways of achieving this end. For > example, the MyBlog tutorial uses straight HTML for posts, so one > approach would be to open a flickr account, post the images there and > insert links to the flickr images in the HTML in the blog posts. > Alternatively, you could add a file upload facility, as described in > the Pylons docs (http://beta.pylonshq.com/docs/en/0.9.7/forms/#id2) so > that you could upload image files which you can then reference in the > blog posts. In this instance, you would either have to go with drop- > dead simple file upload or implement a simple admin interface for the > uploaded files, delete/overwrite/add, whatever suits your > requirements. > > You may decide that in the event of a deleted post, you also want to > delete automatically any associated images, so now you need to keep > track of which image(s) go(es) with which post (assuming posts cannot > share images), etc., etc., etc. Rinse and repeat for endless > successive versions, usually of increasing complexity. > > Although it seems to be a simple issue, on closer inspection it isn't > simple at all. And certainly, the notion of "everything needed for a > publishable site" is very much an idiosyncratic one, i.e. with/ > without/ or choice of: markup language, images, comments (threaded or > otherwise, email advice of response), anti-uce, trackbacks, > permalinks, user-selectable sidebar content, purple numbers, > versioning, HTML vs XHTML, microformats, RDFa, atompub, syntax, > highlighting (& supported syntaxes), openid signup, oauth. The current > range of Wordpress plugins gives a sense of the diversity of opinions > as to what is "needed for a publishable site". The real b****r factor > is that there are multiple ways of implementing each of the > aforementioned components, so providing adequate examples would be a > monumental task. > > Then there are special requirements. I wanted to tune our photo diary > to suit our own quite specific requirements - that of showing several > images below a post (written in markdown), without actually having to > include the images specifically in the post and for the images to be > laid out sensibly even if they were of different aspect ratios > (landscape vs portrait vs panoramic). > > I eventually settled on a bulk upload facility, preserving the > sequence of the images specified in the multiple file upload fields. > The sequence preserves our selection and the blog application (written > in TurboGears 1) handles the layout. Here's a good example (note: it's > table-less fluid CSS): > > http://www.higginsandmacfarlane.com/diary/ > > Not too bad for requiring only that we take a little care in choosing > the order that the images appear in the sequence of upload file fields > and it avoids us having to muck about with doing tables in Markdown, > all we need do is perform a simple choose-write-post task. > > I've never seen any advantage in posting the code as an example, I > doubt that anyone else would have similar requirements. > > Hope this helps answer your question. > > Cheers, > > Graham > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
