More forrest based sites
Hi I've been using Forrest since 0.7. In fact I'm long overdue an upgrade now that 0.9 is out because I'm still using 0.7 - not had much time to spare for that... and whilst on that subject is jumping two releases going to be easy? Anyway, I've build a site that has quite a lot of content, internal and external links. Forrest scores because producing this content is a lot of effort and the last thing you want to end up with is content that can only ever live in one domain. Forrest's document spec is simple and this way it is relatively easy to process your content for something else, should you want to. That alone is a great motivator for putting effort into one's website. I've used Forrest to create the website for Inq - a scripting language that, while much like others of its kind can be used in a general purpose way, also includes cooperating client and server environments. It reifies many programming concepts (for example variable references) so that common tasks (like say MVC dispatching and database mapping) can be handled by the environment. If you consider it useful and worthy, perhaps you would add it to the list of Forrest-powered sites. Kind regards Tom http://www.inqwell.com
Re: More forrest based sites
Tom Sanders wrote: I've been using Forrest since 0.7. In fact I'm long overdue an upgrade now that 0.9 is out because I'm still using 0.7 - not had much time to spare for that... and whilst on that subject is jumping two releases going to be easy? Thanks so much for the feedback. Yes should be fine. Anyway please discuss any issues that you encounter. Looking from the outside it seems to be a straight-forward site. Follow the upgrading notes at http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_90/ and as recommended the previous notes need to be scanned. Anyway, I've build a site that has quite a lot of content, internal and external links. Forrest scores because producing this content is a lot of effort and the last thing you want to end up with is content that can only ever live in one domain. Forrest's document spec is simple and this way it is relatively easy to process your content for something else, should you want to. That alone is a great motivator for putting effort into one's website. Glad that it meets your needs. I've used Forrest to create the website for Inq - a scripting language that, while much like others of its kind can be used in a general purpose way, also includes cooperating client and server environments. It reifies many programming concepts (for example variable references) so that common tasks (like say MVC dispatching and database mapping) can be handled by the environment. Very interesting. Perhaps Forrest software can interact in some way. Join us on the dev mail list. If you consider it useful and worthy, perhaps you would add it to the list of Forrest-powered sites. Definitely. Someone will patch that list soon. -David Kind regards Tom http://www.inqwell.com
Re: forrest based sites
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:03:47AM -0500, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I have just created a tiny site for my consulting activities using forrest. Welcome to Forrest. I like the fact of creating my site based upon xml files which are in source control. This is one of the nice aspects of forrest. Now, I am wondering, did some forrest users skin their site with JQuery menus ? Not that I'm aware of. Is it maybe already part of some forrest plugin ? No, not yet. If not, what would be the steps to implement that ? It could be implemented in a plugin, sure, but I think it could also be done in a skin or theme. The starting point for any of these approaches would be to copy an existing plugin | skin | theme and start customising. Most of the beginning work can stay here on the user list, but dispatcher theme topics will need to migrate to our dev list because it is unreleased. If you run into any snags with a given approach, ask away. -Brian I thought that maybe we can combine the good architectural design of forrest with some seductive bells and whistles. Regards, Antoine http://www.agilebuild.com
