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#13 2006-01-13 08:23:55
- lee
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- From: Normandy, France
- Registered: 2004-06-17
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Re: 7 suggestions to improve TxP
I created a termonology problem here, by web site owner I mean the client – not the person who creates the site. There is no built in single/mutiple tag or plugin that lets the non tech client very easily add a simple album to a page – all the current offerings require a web site designer to setup an album. This tag isn’t for the designer it’s for the client.
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Re: 7 suggestions to improve TxP
If you forgive my amusement, but this sounds a lot like a <txp:dowhatIwant /> tag.
(We could pass a human readable text with a description of the feature and then we could use some rulebased, expert-system with genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic to re-program a simulated neural-net which outputs some brilliant code – “just what I wanted!”, if not we could always implement some emotions and punish our frankenpattern).
Ok, sorrry ffor the offtopic! I think zem understood what you meant, when he suggested:
A better solution, I think, would be a ready made page template (gallery_default or whatever) that contains the gallery code. That way all that’s required is setting up a section to use that page. You can easily do this for your clients now.
So instead of your suggested:
<txp:album name="friends"/>
you might for example write up a section template and your client would only create a section and assign that template. Or you put the code inside a form and simply call:
<txp:output_form name="album"/> (which includes some plugins/tags that take their information from the url).
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#15 2006-01-13 09:15:50
- lee
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Re: 7 suggestions to improve TxP
Your amusement is miss placed.
I made 7 reasonable suggestions based on feedback from clients, Zem suggested that might expand the album idea – so I did.
It’s more like <code><txp:doWhatClientsWant /></code>
Last edited by lee (2006-01-13 09:17:39)
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Re: 7 suggestions to improve TxP
I was not referring to the 7 suggestions, I was referring to the one tag to rule them all.
I also seemed to have gotten you temporarily mixed up with LeeStewart (with whom we talk relaxed, sense of humor and all); I shall make sure to address you with a seemingly more appropiate droughty earnestness. I sometimes forget we’re here for serious business, not fun.
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#17 2006-01-13 15:18:00
- aesop1
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- Registered: 2004-09-19
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Re: 7 suggestions to improve TxP
The Frankentags are dangerous and need to be stopped now!
Can you imagine what would happen to me if <code><txp:doWhatIWant /></code> fell into the hands of my wife?
Seriously, though, Lee, I do like the idea of being able to upload and insert an image while in the article screen.
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Re: 7 suggestions to improve TxP
One Tag To Rule Them All
(Update: Damn it, I should read the whole thread before posting. Sencer already made the obvious Lord of the Rings joke.)
Last edited by ramanan (2006-01-13 15:55:23)
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