Re: The beginning
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13792
interpreted = N
texte = >For a while now I have been observing this list in anticipation of >beginning to use WebCat. Well the time has come! I have printed the >documentation and perused it a little. I was wondering if anyone had any >tips on how to get started using this software. > >Thanks in advance.I started with the tearoom and general store examples. Ran them from my webserver from a client over our lan. Got the feel of how they worked and then opened the .tmpl's or .html's and examimed the code. This gives you a basic idea of the structure of how the pages and commands interact. Then I renamed a few pages, edited them and started to mess around with my own data.Our biggest problem is 4 people in sales, 3 in engineering, 2 in marketing coming back and saying now that you did this can you now do that. What I am driving at is either plan in advance or be ready to move your databases to a box with filemaker or some other software to add more fields and or re-edited your pages :). Of couse we are not a shopping site in the general terms. We have more page inside our intranet then outside for the general public. What happens is you create a perfectly good page and because webcatalog has so much horse power, yourself and others will be constantly dreaming up new ideas, uses and applications beyond a standard commerce site (if there is such a thing) that starnine/pacific-coast never dreamed of themselves. It is almost a programming language for html pages. If it had the old fashion if then, gosub routines like I used to use in my old mai-basic-4 days then it would darn near anything I couldn't do with it. But the beauty of this software and the user of this list is throw your crazy ideas and applications out in front of us and 99 out of 100 times you going to find somebody that already has done what you are trying to do and you don't have to re-invent the wheel.Here is a classic example of a crazy idea. We have about 30 pages of key competitors I want my marketing department to visit every 30 days. With the referrer tag in the latest release. We now track if and when they visit those sites. They go to an internal page and it shows them which ones they need to visit, sorted by last visit date. Oldest at the top. They click on the link and it adds 30 days to a feiled that then drops it to the bottom of the list and jumps to the link. Sort of link a bookmark, pagewatch, url reminder all in one. What you will find out very shortly is that webcatlog is the veg-a-matic of webpage creation it slices, dices and chops. It has a thousand and one uses only limited by you imagination.And remember no question to this list is is considered out of line, unless you want to know who will win the world serious!=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com ===============================================
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>For a while now I have been observing this list in anticipation of >beginning to use WebCat. Well the time has come! I have printed the >documentation and perused it a little. I was wondering if anyone had any >tips on how to get started using this software. > >Thanks in advance.I started with the tearoom and general store examples. Ran them from my webserver from a client over our lan. Got the feel of how they worked and then opened the .tmpl's or .html's and examimed the code. This gives you a basic idea of the structure of how the pages and commands interact. Then I renamed a few pages, edited them and started to mess around with my own data.Our biggest problem is 4 people in sales, 3 in engineering, 2 in marketing coming back and saying now that you did this can you now do that. What I am driving at is either plan in advance or be ready to move your databases to a box with filemaker or some other software to add more fields and or re-edited your pages :). Of couse we are not a shopping site in the general terms. We have more page inside our intranet then outside for the general public. What happens is you create a perfectly good page and because webcatalog has so much horse power, yourself and others will be constantly dreaming up new ideas, uses and applications beyond a standard commerce site (if there is such a thing) that starnine/pacific-coast never dreamed of themselves. It is almost a programming language for html pages. If it had the old fashion if then, gosub routines like I used to use in my old mai-basic-4 days then it would darn near anything I couldn't do with it. But the beauty of this software and the user of this list is throw your crazy ideas and applications out in front of us and 99 out of 100 times you going to find somebody that already has done what you are trying to do and you don't have to re-invent the wheel.Here is a classic example of a crazy idea. We have about 30 pages of key competitors I want my marketing department to visit every 30 days. With the referrer tag in the latest release. We now track if and when they visit those sites. They go to an internal page and it shows them which ones they need to visit, sorted by last visit date. Oldest at the top. They click on the link and it adds 30 days to a feiled that then drops it to the bottom of the list and jumps to the link. Sort of link a bookmark, pagewatch, url reminder all in one. What you will find out very shortly is that webcatlog is the veg-a-matic of webpage creation it slices, dices and chops. It has a thousand and one uses only limited by you imagination.And remember no question to this list is is considered out of line, unless you want to know who will win the world serious!=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com ===============================================
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