Wiki4D templates (was Re: Today the Hobbyist, Tommorow, The World!)

[Justin C Calvarese]

nick wrote:
> Justin - I will come up with a simple layout as a plain html/css
> template (give me a couple days). Then, if the layout looks good to you
> and others, we can have a go at using that with the wiki4d template
> system and see what that produces.

That'd be fine. Also, what you could do is create a new template at 
Wiki4D. That's what I did under my folder when I was testing the system out:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?JustinCalvarese/Template

When I thought it was ready for prime time, I copied it to the 
DocComments folder and set it up as the template using the Context subpage.

> I assume the wiki4d template is just an HTML page with some sort of
> <?php insert snippet of content here?> type tag.

Well, I think it actually runs on Perl, but it's the same kind of idea.

There aren't really any instructions for this, but I figured it out by 
some examples. And I think examples can explain it well enough. This is 
the current template:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DocComments/WikiTemplate

Here is a newer templates from another ProWiki site:
http://www.prowiki.org/prowiki/wiki.cgi?Admin/Template/SB

The old template is mentioned here (in case you were curious):
http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/33159

>> We can make further changes as well. The template system seems to be
>> pretty flexible. I think my problem is a lack of imagination.
> No need to be imaginative. Webpages should not be original; they should
> be informative and have the appearance of your "normal professional
> webpage".

You have a good point. In any case, I was trying to split the difference 
between the Digital Mars website and MediaWiki's "monobook" style.

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jcc7