Hi Dan, Thank you for the talent work of BoltWire. It's so useful and powerful for non-programmers, like me, to play around and do something really workable. My "Jargon" ( http://txtray.net/jargon/ ) is running well now.
In this critical moment, I'd like to rise an old issue about the Terminology in BoltWire. Please forgive me if I behavior too eager. There are some terms used in BoltWire had confused me while I was a BoltWire newbie. Although I don't get confused right now but every time I mention those terms I have to add some words to distinguish them from each other. Some of these terms are: 1) "Field" wiki v.s. data "field" They are all "field" but meaning totally different things. I can appreciate the elaboration of the terms you use, but it doubled the difficult to communicate between us, and most of all, to newbies. You are creating BoltWire with philosophy. But sometimes the elegant thing would reduce the ease of use. Making people become frustration. 2) Info vars in normal pages v.s. in info.* pages They are all info vars and I think they are using the same BoltWire code to process. However, in a user's point of view, they are built by different method and locate in different place. At first time I read the docs about info vars, it confused me a while. 3) "Footer" as zone page v.s. "footer" in site.snippets Footer is a great design for coding BoltWire site, however, there is a snippet in site.snippets called "Footer" announcing the copyright message. How about rename it to "Copyright" or ...? 4) Stamp The "stamp" folder containing the old version of pages which have been edited and set a timestamp on them. But they are not stamp itself. In my translation of BoltWire terms, it's very difficult to explain the term "stamp". I have to translate it to the meaning like: putting a timestamp on a page and archive it... How about "cockloft" or "archive"? 5) Backup Action.backup is not really backup but a tool to collecting pages for a plugin. It can be used to backup the whole pages folder obviously but it confuse me a while at first time I saw it. Using a backup file to install a plugin? Weird. How about "packing"? These are the things I've noticed. Not big deal. Just write out my two cents about what had bother me before. Wish help. Not making things become complex. :) Cheers, linly --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
