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Potential Commission: "Super WebPage Post-Processor"

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TaoPhoenix:
Okay gang, having made friends, fans, the token enemy, and a donation, now it's time to see where the economics of this site are.

I spent all night testing out about fifteen web author tools and only one came marginally close to something that I would like.

After years of writer's blocks and short attention spans, I finally stumbled upon the "Tree Pads" as a tool that creates nested nodes of notes and can power-export the entire database as a dynamic web page.

Trouble is, it's just a bit bare. It would be nice if those pages were end-capped by some templating.

In a sense, it's a third cousin type app to my PGN processor, in that it should be just straight text manipulation tucking the note into a web template. So that's why I say "It isn't that hard" - sure there are quirks, but the concept feels simple - take X supported template, drop the note text into the middle of it, and resave the file, and recurse for all the eligible files in a folder.

In a minute I'll post a brutal sandpaper-rough example of the output from the only program was was even in the ballpark.

I'd peg the value to me at about $50.

Anyone interested?

TaoPhoenix:

Original Batch Page:
http://www.freevoteusa.com/index.html

Eye-Bleeding demo of concept:
http://taophoenix.deckerservices.com/Tests/toc22.html

That was from the free NetObjects Fusion Essentials. (I crossed the gray line and downloaded a copy of NOF 11 cracked, and the same page didn't even load! Saved $200.)

It's important to me to retain that dynamic collapsing menu.

Anyone dare to take this on?  Or am I a deluded aging birdie?

TaoPhoenix:

Okay, Update -

No one bit at this, I get it.

Meanwhile, a promising approach seems to be to smash the output site / text into a CSV styler design. Then it becomes a Universal page. But this still needs work.

rgdot:
I was wondering along the same lines recently https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=30173

skwire:
take X supported template, drop the note text into the middle of it, and resave the file, and recurse for all the eligible files in a folder.-TaoPhoenix (March 11, 2012, 03:50 AM)
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Question, does the "note text" go into the same place in the template every time?

So, as an example:

1) Read in text contents of note_text_1.txt file.
2) Read in template.html file.
3) Insert note_text_1.txt file contents into a specified place within the template file.
4) Save off combined contents as note_text_1.html.
5) Lather, rinse, repeat for other note_text_#.txt files.

Is this what you're after?

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