Re: The beginning
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
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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 mywebserver from a client over our lan. Got the feel of how they worked andthen opened the .tmpl's or .html's and examimed the code. This gives you abasic idea of the structure of how the pages and commands interact. Then Irenamed a few pages, edited them and started to mess around with my owndata.Our biggest problem is 4 people in sales, 3 in engineering, 2 in marketingcoming back and saying now that you did this can you now do that. What Iam driving at is either plan in advance or be ready to move your databasesto a box with filemaker or some other software to add more fields and orre-edited your pages :). Of couse we are not a shopping site in thegeneral terms. We have more page inside our intranet then outside for thegeneral public. What happens is you create a perfectly good page andbecause webcatalog has so much horse power, yourself and others will beconstantly dreaming up new ideas, uses and applications beyond a standardcommerce site (if there is such a thing) that starnine/pacific-coast neverdreamed 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 myold mai-basic-4 days then it would darn near anything I couldn't do withit. But the beauty of this software and the user of this list is throwyour crazy ideas and applications out in front of us and 99 out of 100times you going to find somebody that already has done what you are tryingto 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 keycompetitors I want my marketing department to visit every 30 days. Withthe referrer tag in the latest release. We now track if and when theyvisit those sites. They go to an internal page and it shows them whichones 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 itto 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 shortlyis that webcatlog is the veg-a-matic of webpage creation it slices, dicesand 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, unlessyou 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 mywebserver from a client over our lan. Got the feel of how they worked andthen opened the .tmpl's or .html's and examimed the code. This gives you abasic idea of the structure of how the pages and commands interact. Then Irenamed a few pages, edited them and started to mess around with my owndata.Our biggest problem is 4 people in sales, 3 in engineering, 2 in marketingcoming back and saying now that you did this can you now do that. What Iam driving at is either plan in advance or be ready to move your databasesto a box with filemaker or some other software to add more fields and orre-edited your pages :). Of couse we are not a shopping site in thegeneral terms. We have more page inside our intranet then outside for thegeneral public. What happens is you create a perfectly good page andbecause webcatalog has so much horse power, yourself and others will beconstantly dreaming up new ideas, uses and applications beyond a standardcommerce site (if there is such a thing) that starnine/pacific-coast neverdreamed 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 myold mai-basic-4 days then it would darn near anything I couldn't do withit. But the beauty of this software and the user of this list is throwyour crazy ideas and applications out in front of us and 99 out of 100times you going to find somebody that already has done what you are tryingto 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 keycompetitors I want my marketing department to visit every 30 days. Withthe referrer tag in the latest release. We now track if and when theyvisit those sites. They go to an internal page and it shows them whichones 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 itto 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 shortlyis that webcatlog is the veg-a-matic of webpage creation it slices, dicesand 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, unlessyou 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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