Software update
Yesterday and today were/are light blogging days because I've been doing some planning and developing.
The blogging tool I have under development was slowed because I decided I wanted to be able to develop more complex pages than a simple listing of posts. In essence, I want more than one template per page-by template I don't mean the whole page. I mean the equivalent of what is between the and (this is a terminology issue I'll have to work out before writing documentation for the thing).
The plan is to have (at least) three distinct types of postings:
- Standard blog-type news posts
- Event announcements
- Web site reviews
I'm looking to create "blocks" that present different aspects of these collections of information and drop whichever ones I want into whatever page. For instance, I'll derive from the web site reviews a single page presenting the entire review of a site, list of links/table of contents to all published reviews that can be dropped in a side bar, and a list of links with abstracts of the reviews.
Anyway, so far the best way I can think of doing this is by passing a database query, or maybe the name of a predefined query as a parameter to the equivalent of the
tag. We'll see.
There will be some blogging done today, though. I haven't really kept up with my goal of one non-drive-by post per day. I'm not beating myself up, but I'm not forgetting that goal either.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/16/2003 10:23:53 AM |
Posted by P6 at April 16, 2003 10:23 AM
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