Fred, two questions:

-publicdomain (October 18, 2019, 06:42 PM)

Hi PD

Answers to your questions:

1.  Is what you want simply a GUI with a text field for inserting synopsis, then replacing "[SYNOPSIS GOES HERE]" in your HTML snippet?

-publicdomain (October 18, 2019, 06:42 PM)

        Yes please. Given there will be between 3 and 20 listings under any given author.

2.  What's the source of the synopsis text? We may be able to query/fetch all of them them right into the HTML, in a sequential automated batch.

-publicdomain (October 18, 2019, 06:42 PM)

        I modify synopses from three sources, Goodreads, FantasticFiction and another, random one. Usually try to limit each one to about 140-150 words.

I've only ever used it for form letters, so will need to experiment a bit with that.

Some css image sliders and galleries have a system that's exactly what I want, but they're hard coded, so the field-names and positions don't match.

So I need a wet Sunday afternoon after the Rugby World Cup has finished.

 ;)

Seems like everything has to be stored in the cloud - I'm hosting this locally available on a VPN.

-fredemeister (October 13, 2019, 07:58 PM)

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One important thing to specify: Is your goal a system where your family members (who I assume are not all programmers!) themselves edit information about books through a locally hosted web app of some sort? Or is the goal that only you update the information and then your family reads it through locally hosted webpages?

-Nod5 (October 14, 2019, 05:18 PM)

Thanks for your reply, the second is the way I'm going, although slowly. :)