Re: [WebDNA] WebDNA as cgi app (was WebSite Examples)
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = We also need to adapt the WebDNA examples to properly use CSS. That clean, "web 2.0" look really does wonders for marketing Ruby and there's no reason why it can't do the same thing for WebDNA. On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Terry Wilson wrote: > Yes, absolutely. My sites are mostly about the cgi magic. Think of > all the people who are intimidated by the popular languages, but > want to do a few custom things. WebDNA is perfect for them. I agree > that this is where SM missed the boat big time. Actually, this is > how I came into it. And got hooked. > > I only use a cart on a few sites, (terryfic3d.com has one) and wrote > my own anyway. It would be nice to be able to use the supplied > template set, but it's just so darned ugly. So I figured if I had to > rewrite code anyway, I might as well rewrite it from scratch. So as > a suggestion... for the cart templates, make them nice to begin > with, and give some choices, or at least provide css tags to make > everything styleable via stylesheets. > > Terry > > At 5:20 PM +0200 6/29/08, Frank Nordberg wrote: >> In any case, it seems to me that one of the major mistake Smith >> Micro made was to market WebDNA purely as a ecommerce application. >> They completely forgot that it's so much more than that. I think >> it's fair to say that 90 percent of the webmasters who *should* >> have used WebDNA have no need for a shopping cart. >> >> >> >> Frank Nordberg >> http://www.musicaviva.com >> http://stores.ebay.com/Nordbergs-Music-Store?refid=store > > -- > Terry Wilson | terry@terryfic.com | http://terryfic.com > http://WhosComing.com - a simplified, affordable online reservation > system > http://TightJacket.com -- stylish protection for your laptop > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Attitude is the only difference between ordeal and adventure. >
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We also need to adapt the WebDNA examples to properly use CSS. That clean, "web 2.0" look really does wonders for marketing Ruby and there's no reason why it can't do the same thing for WebDNA. On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Terry Wilson wrote: > Yes, absolutely. My sites are mostly about the cgi magic. Think of > all the people who are intimidated by the popular languages, but > want to do a few custom things. WebDNA is perfect for them. I agree > that this is where SM missed the boat big time. Actually, this is > how I came into it. And got hooked. > > I only use a cart on a few sites, (terryfic3d.com has one) and wrote > my own anyway. It would be nice to be able to use the supplied > template set, but it's just so darned ugly. So I figured if I had to > rewrite code anyway, I might as well rewrite it from scratch. So as > a suggestion... for the cart templates, make them nice to begin > with, and give some choices, or at least provide css tags to make > everything styleable via stylesheets. > > Terry > > At 5:20 PM +0200 6/29/08, Frank Nordberg wrote: >> In any case, it seems to me that one of the major mistake Smith >> Micro made was to market WebDNA purely as a ecommerce application. >> They completely forgot that it's so much more than that. I think >> it's fair to say that 90 percent of the webmasters who *should* >> have used WebDNA have no need for a shopping cart. >> >> >> >> Frank Nordberg >> http://www.musicaviva.com >> http://stores.ebay.com/Nordbergs-Music-Store?refid=store > > -- > Terry Wilson | terry@terryfic.com | http://terryfic.com > http://WhosComing.com - a simplified, affordable online reservation > system > http://TightJacket.com -- stylish protection for your laptop > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Attitude is the only difference between ordeal and adventure. >
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