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blogging tool solution advice?
country flaguser name
United States
2007-07-15 08:28:53
Hi,

a friend of mine recently wanted me to help him do some
stuff for his
new website. Basically it was clear what he needed was a
blogging tool
but he has very specific design requirements that I do not
think is
implementable in any blogging tool currently.

The requirements were as follows:

The first page of the site is a single column menu, pages
aside from
the initial single column start page can have up to four
columns:

Column types are:

1 - always menu
2 - documents of a particular type or a submenu
3 - documents of a particular type or a submenu
4. documents of a particular type

so one scenario could be that there are four columns on a
single page
consisting of

| menu  | submenu1 | submenu2 | document considered to be
under
submenu2
another scenario could be
|menu| submenu1| document

or
|menu | document|


after quite a bit of work got this working in xhtml / css
but he still
has maintenance problems since he is non-technical. I have
the idea
that the data of the documents in the non-menu columns could
be gotten
just by reading in data from some blog installation on the
server. I
think the best solution would involve a blogging tool that
could
output content as just XML and that I could then read to
build up the
exact display he wants. Anyone know of a tool like this.

Also if this is not the best group to ask this, probably not
as it
seems very general, please point me to the right group.
Thank you


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Re: blogging tool solution advice?
country flaguser name
United States
2007-07-15 09:54:53
You might find you get more help on answering this from the
Blogger
help group.
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On 15 Jul, 14:28, pantagruel <rasmussen.br...gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a friend of mine recently wanted me to help him do some
stuff for his
> new website. Basically it was clear what he needed was
a blogging tool
> but he has very specific design requirements that I do
not think is
> implementable in any blogging tool currently.
>
> The requirements were as follows:
>
> The first page of the site is a single column menu,
pages aside from
> the initial single column start page can have up to
four columns:
>
> Column types are:
>
> 1 - always menu
> 2 - documents of a particular type or a submenu
> 3 - documents of a particular type or a submenu
> 4. documents of a particular type
>
> so one scenario could be that there are four columns on
a single page
> consisting of
>
> | menu  | submenu1 | submenu2 | document considered to
be under
> submenu2
> another scenario could be
> |menu| submenu1| document
>
> or
> |menu | document|
>
> after quite a bit of work got this working in xhtml /
css but he still
> has maintenance problems since he is non-technical. I
have the idea
> that the data of the documents in the non-menu columns
could be gotten
> just by reading in data from some blog installation on
the server. I
> think the best solution would involve a blogging tool
that could
> output content as just XML and that I could then read
to build up the
> exact display he wants. Anyone know of a tool like
this.
>
> Also if this is not the best group to ask this,
probably not as it
> seems very general, please point me to the right group.
Thank you


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