Re: [Sheflug] Web development help

[Peter Humphrey <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 30 January 2009 01:49:13 Matt Mitchell wrote:
> One way to do this (and yes, I have done it in the past) is to
> download/mirror the site, and then extract the relevant bits from the
> html pages, with a view to storing them in a database/having nice
> phtml/just making them all a bit more consistent.
>
> This tends to be in the order of making a small dynamic website
> though, and is done in much the same way, so probably not a way to do
> it if you're learning at the moment!

Similar to what I had in mind, but I note the caveat!

> Do you actually *use* the frontpage extensions on this website, or is
> it just the publishing mechanism?

Hard to say at the moment. I asked the previous maintainer about this and he 
could only think of a couple of things that use the extensions, both of 
which I could happily drop. But then he may not be aware of which do and 
which don't as he may not have used any other platform.

I do like the publishing mechanism, and I also like the WYSIWYG laying out, 
so conceivably I could keep it (having paid a lot of money for the 
tool :-( ) and just not use the extensions.

Aside: can anyone say what FP extensions actually are?

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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