RE: [mv] development tools

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******

Someone recently (like in the last couple of days) posted the same question 
to the list, and someone else responded that Allaire makes a WYSIWYG HTML 
editor that can be taught a new tag set (like the Minivend tags) so it will 
theoretically behave itself and not eat your MML alive.

I agree with Chris' comments below. Unlike a straight HTML site, you are 
not going to be cranking out a lot of static pages in Minivend; rather, 
you'll be creating a few layouts (and pieces of layouts) which will be 
processed by the Minivend server and merged with file data, variable data, 
etc. to create the actual pages that the user sees.  I've tried all the 
whiz-bang whee-ha site "generators" out there, and in the end, a good text 
editor has proven to be the most useful Minivend development tool.

- Ed L.

At 09:21 AM 4/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson" 
><ct@arborinternet.com>     ******
>
>I think it is best to edit the MML/HTML pages in a text editor. There are
>a number of these available that provide HTML support. You can use a
>visual editor to create the HTML, but once you add MML you need to stay
>with a text editor or your tags will get mangled.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of mike curtis
> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 3:18 AM
> > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > Subject: [mv] development tools
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from "mike curtis"
> > <mikec@glcweb.co.uk>     ******
> >
> > This is my first request to this group.  I have been reading the
> > contributions with interest for some weeks now.
> >
> > I am not quite a total newbie.  I have installed 4.01 via
> > telnet and FTP to
> > one of my FreeBSD boxes on my LAN to simulate an install on an ISP and
> > solved the problems this throws up, and am impressed with the mv system.
> >
> > My problem is not so much technical at the moment, but more on
> > developing a
> > site.  I am not much of a developer, small amount of Perl,
> > HTML, SQL etc and
> > I need some advise from you guys and girls on the development
> > tools to use,
> > i.e. how do you develop dynamic pages or rather the elements to make a
> > dynamic page, FrontPage, Dreamweaver ? I just need an overview of the
> > process and recommended tools to do the job.  No point in
> > reinventing the
> > wheel.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > -
> > To unsubscribe from the list, DO NOT REPLY to this message.
> > Instead, send
> > email with 'UNSUBSCRIBE minivend-users' in the body to
> > Majordomo@minivend.com.
> > Archive of past messages: http://www.minivend.com/minivend/minivend-list
> >
>
>-
>To unsubscribe from the list, DO NOT REPLY to this message.  Instead, send
>email with 'UNSUBSCRIBE minivend-users' in the body to Majordomo@minivend.com.
>Archive of past messages: http://www.minivend.com/minivend/minivend-list

Printex Marking Technologies
12113 Kirkham Rd.
Poway, CA  92064  U.S.A.
858-513-2418
800-982-1928
858-513-2419 FAX
http://www.printexusa.com

-
To unsubscribe from the list, DO NOT REPLY to this message.  Instead, send
email with 'UNSUBSCRIBE minivend-users' in the body to Majordomo@minivend.com.
Archive of past messages: http://www.minivend.com/minivend/minivend-list