Need some help

James Lewes jameslewes at comcast.net
Wed Jul 9 13:19:01 EDT 2003


Klaus

I have never used revolution to build a web interface and then deploy 
the interface online. Also, I am not sure how to build html links into 
revolution.

James
On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi James,
>
>> I have a book coming out, on July 30, on the military 
>> antiwar-movement which emerged
>> during the Vietnam War. I am currently thinking about a website to 
>> accompany the book.
>> The site will include approximately 500 images and I would like to 
>> make it searchable by content.
>>
>> At the moment I am  playing with three possibilities:
>>
>> 1. to build a filemaker database and link to it with a web portal.
>>
>> 2. to build it with revolution and deploy the stack online and build 
>> a front page that would do the same thing. The latter appeals to me 
>> because it would enhance my programming skills
>>
>> 3. To use html.
>>
>> Please advise me on what I should do
>
> well, you might not be surprised that most, if not all users of this 
> list
> will recommend option 2 ;-)
>
> And it sounds like a good idea, too.
>
> You could store all (or most) searchable text including link-infos in
> the front-end stack and just download what's currently needed...
>
> And remember that you can set the filename of an image to an URL like
> http:///www.server.com/folder/image.gif, a veeeeery handy feature ;-)
>
> Please don't hesitate to ask this list if you need more 
> info/help/assistance :-)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> www.major-k.de
>
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