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. > >
