Back in December of last year, I started working on a drop-in script
to make a blog in Freeway. A real blog, that is, one that could
accept comments and generated archives and served feeds and all that.
I got about 8/10 done, but had a couple of nasty Freeway crashes that
wiped out my document each time.
It’s still up for looking at on <http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/
blog> (most of the actual activity is centered around December 2007
or so, a little bit after that).
What I need to do is refactor it to be more friendly to a vanilla
Freeway document. All my usual tricks are on offer – the Wiki-style
templating language, Markdown (naturally), live preview when you’re
editing a post, full-text search, etc. However, as it stands, it
requires a PhD in Freeway to lay out and integrate. That last 20% is
the uphill climb part, and I don’t know yet when I’ll have time to
dig back into it.
Whatever happens, it won’t ever be an “Action-ized” thing you just
plug in and don’t think about. There’s too much baggage required for
that. PHP5/MySQL for a start…
Walter
On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Dan J wrote:
Before someone drops another shpeel in here about the how’s and
why’s of Freeway design process, I’ll save it and say as of right
now there isn’t a way to manage a blog using only Freeway. It
doesn’t have the options built into it. There are alternatives to
setting up a CMS and such, but as far as a built-in feature…nope.
Using the Blogger service however is really easy and you can use
external programs, for instance I use MarsEdit for all my posts.
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