stupid question

Fri Jan 23 20:40:34 EST 2009

Hi Joe,

Sure, it is very well possible to create website with Revolution.  
There are several people on this list who use Rev CGI to serve a  
dynamic website. Although I use PHP increasingly often, I have used  
Revolution in several cases to create static websites, such as  
<http://runrev.info> and <http://economy-x-talk.com/testshop/>. This  
one <http://runrev.info/error.html> is powered by Rev CGI.

I have also created a simple html editor for a client. In combination  
with revBrowser, it is a very nice little tool. Btw I still use  
HyperCard to create simple file lists when I want to share some files  
on-line without making a site. There is also Rev On Rockets (is that  
the name?) by André, which is a complete server. I made a similar  
tool, but that was for serving a particular database.

Generally, I think that most people create a template and fill either  
dynamically using Rev CGI or with a Rev-based tool to create a static  
website. Even if Rev is used as an actualy web server, people  
probably still use a template to fill that dynamically.

Filling out a template is simple. Just make a file similar to

<html>
<body>
***
</body>
</html>

Read this template from a text file and replace *** with the content  
of your site. Now send the modified data to the requesting client.

Now you probably need to decide whether you want to set up a Rev- 
based server with a dynamic website or want to create a static  
website with Revolution which you upload to a server...

--

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Op 24-jan-2009, om 2:20 heeft Joe Lewis Wilkins het volgende geschreven:

> Hi all,
>
> I don't even know how to ask this question; but it seems to me that  
> we have all the tools we need in Rev to create websites. I see  
> postings about different ones of you using HTML and XHTML for some  
> of your projects. Is that what you're doing? I searched the Users  
> Guide for the words "website" and "webpage" and got nothing except  
> for one reference to the Rev website. I've done some webpages using  
> AppleWorks a very long time ago, and I understand the basics of  
> HTML and CSS; but a great multi-media app such as Rev should make  
> doing some pretty outstanding things a piece of cake. I just  
> haven't run into the "how to do it" for this sort of thing as yet.
>
> TIA,
>
> Joe Wilkins