Very impressed. A silly question (I'm not very technical and can just about import plugins), is it as easy as TW to use for simple website development?
On Jan 5, 8:41 am, David <[email protected]> wrote: > (I tend to get long winded, so if you want to cut to the chase, just > hop over and take a look. You don't need to read all this to see what > I'm trying to accomplish! Visithttp://tiddly960.tiddlyspot.com/and > let me know what you think.) > > I think you will see how inspired I have been by TW and its seemingly > infinite customizability. I've spent the last few days tinkering on a > TW project and I'd be curious to hear your response. > > I love the way TW let's you very quickly and easily enter, edit, and > format content, as well as retrieve what you've stored. I also love > all the great TW tools I've found in various resources. There's some > really cool stuff out there. > > But TW stymied me on one issue ... I found it really, really, really > hard to do any really significant customization to the layout. TW is > designed that way, I'm sure, because its focus is on content, and it > has a very simple UI that most folks adapt to easily. It serves its > purpose very well. But I wondered if there might be an easy way to > give users very broad control over the layout (beyond even the header, > mainmenu, sidebar, and story). > > One of the other tools I use often in my design work is a fluid CSS > layout framework. It's designed for rapid prototyping and development > of web sites, and it makes it very easy to play "what if" with > layouts. Its weakness (because it isn't intended for this purpose) is > that it does nothing to help you generate content. Most designers > would "lorem ipsum" everything, or apply it on top of whatever > existing static content they have available. > > Since I'm one of those people who likes peanut butter on my chocolate, > I decided to try two put to great tools together. My goal was to > create a very easy way to display tiddlers anywhere on a page and > create any kind of layout, and still have TW running the show. I've > made a proof of concept putting the two tools together, letting the > grid framework drive the CSS layout, and TW drive the content, and do > it by using transclusion and making a very very simple and extensible > syntax. This is something that someone with no HTML or CSS experience > could work with easily, yet make quite simple or complex layout > changes for whatever purpose they may have. This also uses only CSS > and no javascript, though you'll see that there are plenty of > possibilities for including. That's just not in my skill set. > > I've only been around TW and the community for a few weeks, and I > don't know a lot of the history, and I'm still getting familiar with > all the tools that are available, so there may well be other excellent > ways to achieve the same goal. But I would be very eager to get some > feedback from you TW wizards about whether this would make some kind > of contribution to the TW community. I can imagine it being used for a > variety of purposes beyond just theming. > > This has not been extensively tested in any way, other than quick > browser checks in Firefox, Safari, Opera and Camino (all on a Mac). > I'm too lazy to boot my WinXP to see how it performs in IE (but I'm > not sure I really care :-) ). So check it out, download it, kick the > tires, and tell me what works and what doesn't. I'm very curious to > hear your suggestions and ideas. > > http://tiddly960.tiddlyspot.com > > Thanks for taking a tour! > > David > > P.S.: It is a testament to the brilliance of TiddlyWiki's design and > the good will of the members of this group that I was about to go from > and idea to a working site in about three days. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
