Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques
Mostly I disagree. Tablet-weaving design software should not try to also be HTML web-display page-creation software. (A -- two different purposes. B--- tablet-weaving design software is difficult enough all by itself. C-- there are umpteen thousand HTML webpage creation tools already!) However, the design files created by the TW software *should* be in a format that is easy to include on HTML webpages. (GIFs?) I doubt that database tools are the way to go either, unless I misunderstand the desired goal. Do you want a database of projects from various artists? Or do you want various artists, who have their own webpages, or perhaps "gallery" webpages so generously provided by Janis Saunders, to be able to include the design files? Me, I'd vote for avoiding a centralized database, and decentralizing to each artist the responsibility for their own work (with the aid Janis has so generously given). Databases are notorious for being fixed-format and not allowing flexibility. If I had anything much to display, I'd put it on my own webpage. Janis provides Galleries for those who do have much to display but don't have website-creation skills. I don't see that Databases add any value whatsoever. Lynn with 20 years employment doing software design & implementation P.S. In an ideal world -- what you propose would be nice. But it's really not very practical, from an engineering standpoint... >Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:23:31 -0700 >From: Kevin Karplus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: software wish list > >It would be nice if the software supported easy creation of archives >for documenting projects (design files, photo of finished piece, >information about where the piece was displayed, awards, sale, ...) >and for creating HTML pages for web presentation. This need not be >internal to a single tool---an easy interface to existing database >tools might suffice. Send private reply to Lynn Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
