Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
Ron Wheeler wrote:
Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
Ron, I see now. Let's put it this way:
1- obtain the static contents, and create a portlet for each
section, including navigation menus. Define these portlets in the
registry and wrap it in a war file.
2- In jetspeed create PSML pages to hold each portlet you want
including the menus. If you change any page, then just recreate the
war and deploy it. This will affect only the changed contents.
Cool up to this point, but then there's two questions here. If I
have an existing website that consists of many pages, creating a
portlet for each section is a time consuming task. Let's say I have
a site of 50 pages only, with navigation and news. Then I will have
to create 52 portlet, and then create the corresponding PSML. Isn't
this time consuming ?
Assuming that it takes 10 minutes to do each one, you are up to a
couple of days.
There are probably way to make this even faster.
What are these easier ways? That's what I am after, LOOOL.
You will see patterns in what you are doing and find ways to run edit
scripts or cut and paste into templates that can reduce the time
substantially.
The second question: The existing pages already has links between
them that links from html to html. In this case I need to know in
advance the href for the PSML file. For example, if I have a page
called news.html and it has a link to another page called
news-1234.html, then I have to update the links to
pages/news/recent/news-1234.psml (assuming that the contents of
news-1234.html is going to be in pages/news/recent/news-1234.psml).
Again, isn't this a time consuming task, and don't I have to know in
advance the name of every psml page and what html page it's going to
hold.
see now my problems ?
How did you make the links in the first place without knowing the names
of the referenced pages?
I think you got this wrong. I know the names of the pages I am linking
to, but I mean I have to change the links from linking to html page to
a link to psml. So basically I still have to do a lot of editing in
the html part.
If you can figure out your mapping to permit it, you may be able to
"Search and Replace" to fix all the links at once in each file or write
a script to do it to all files in a single operation.
Make a small list of the existing pages before you start. Design a
naming convention that maps the new pages to the existing structure.
Ron
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