Hey Ian, Thanks so much for pointing us to your site. I'm part of a travelling road show where I teach Shale and Clay and I'm often specifically asked about commercial sites that use Clay's approach to separating HTML and components so that page authors and software developers can easily work with graphic artists.
I will add a screenshot of your application to my slideshow ( http://nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_topic_view.jsp?topicId=18) Thanks again! david 2006/9/15, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Ian, Thanks for sharing your success with us. I really appreciate your participation and for the kind words. The site looks very sexy! Gary -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Ian.Priest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > I thought you might be interested to know that the site I've been > working on for the past few months has now gone live. The site, > http://www.truphone.com, is driven by Shale/Clay sitting on MyFaces and > running inside Tomcat. Underneath there is a MySQL database and a > bespoke application backend that provides the functionality and > interfaces with the VoIP provider and various other third parties. > > Clay was chosen for the ability to write pure HTML that could then be > replaced by dynamic content and for the Tiles-like layout feature. That > was quite important as I was working with a third-party HTML design > agency (sadly that slick look and feel isn't my design!) so JSP or > similar would have been inappropriate. However, a later architecture > re-design showed that Clay was a better choice than realised because I > was able to exploit the full-xml and symbol replacement bits of Clay to > get a very nice site that blends dynamic and static content in quite a > cool manner. The pages are rendered by pulling sub-section pages into a > layout to create some archetypes. The full-xml view pages extend the > archetypes and use "clay" and "clayImport" to pull in the final bits of > content in a nice ready for multi-language manner. Those of you who have > read and answered my various postings over the last few months will have > a pretty good idea of how it's put together, and now the mystery of the > unusual ".tru" extension is solved too :-) (see previous theads). > > I'm sure Truphone would welcome any constructive comments and I know I > would. > > I'd like to say thanks to everyone here. I couldn't have done it without > the help and advice received on this forum, and I'd especially like to > single out Gary VanMatre for help he's given me. Thanks. Hope you like > the site. > > Cheers, > Ian. > >
