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On Saturday 08 November 2008, Peter Wang wrote:
> 2008/11/8 Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 12:55 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> >> This is a silly web site proposal based on being as simple as possible.
>
> ...
>
> >> The concatenated results are run through Pandoc, so any content can be
> >> written with Markdown syntax, but you can also insert any HTML you need.
> >
> > I think it's most excellent. It's strange how custom solutions just
> > always end up looking much better to use than some premade template
> > system.
>
> To be fair, everyone starts out with a simple solution, building hack on
> top of hack as features are required, until it becomes an unmaintainable
> mess. Then someone decides to design the ultimate system from scratch,
> incorporating all those features and then some, which is capable but brings
> with it a lot of complexity. After a while someone else decides that's too
> hard to use so replaces it all with an ultimately simple system... ;-)
>
> I've already had to hack in support for setting page titles.
Can't we place them in the files themselves with some sort of markup? It
already has markup in them for formatting, why not add a way to set the title
in the files instead of in some separate file?
> Nonetheless, trapped in the cycle as we are, I've added an allegrowww2
> module and imported most of the current English web site into it.
>
> You can see the current state of it at:
>
> http://alleg.sourceforge.net/www2/
>
> Links are broken, etc. They should be fixed up eventually.
>
> Peter
>
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