Donald Coates, Thank you! Guess I should stick with a pure Tiddlywiki blog then. Don't want to spend months learning to code before I can blog. Don't want to get into static site generators if Tiddlywiki can do just as well and is what I am already using to organize my thoughts. Like you say writing should not be unduly eclipsed by setting stuff up. I suspect it is going to get eclipsed anyway with just Tiddlywiki.
What attracted me to using Tiddlywiki both as a note-taker and to blog, is its self-containment, transparency and mobility. I don't feel like I'm juggling and dropping a bunch of pieces everywhere. As a note-taker, Tiddlywiki can stay completely in my phone, hopefully no exposure to the cloud. As a note-taker, I can go completely behind its curtain to change whatever I need. As a blog, Tiddlywiki can be tweaked and molded on my phone or desktop all I want before I ever connect to the web to update it. Very reassuring to any perfectionist tendencies. (By contrast, my present blog on Blogger has me coding and creating pretty much all on the net within their blogging environment. It is such a daunting threshold to me to log in and create there in a hard to tweak format that I hardly do it as much as 2 or 3 times a year any more. ) As a blog, presumably Tiddlywiki will be only a single file with an ancillary images folder that I can push with a click to anywhere on the net. It feels safely mobile. No wondering how in the world I would ever recreate my blog from Blogger. If I lose a home on one platform, it is a simple matter of uploading my one tiddlywiki file and image folder to a new address. The same uploading process I will have memorized from having done it every time I post to my blog, which will hopefully have become every day from Tiddlywiki's ease of use and creation. On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:36 AM Donald Coates <digital...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. I did this with my blog <https://blog.digitalap3.com> at > https://blog.digitalap3.com . I am a respiratory therapist by trade and > with covid the blog is one of many projects I have let go of for now. > > I have no coding skills. I can copy and paste into terminal. >> > > Unless you are doing this as a learning experience, I would suggest a more > production ready static site generator. There are hundreds of them like > Jekyll and Ghost. If this is a learning project without the need for > something quick then by all means go for it. I learned a lot so far but I > did start with a medium level understanding of shell scripting, HTML and > CSS. Honestly it would benefit you to start with thoroughly learning the > basics of HTML and CSS first. > > >> >> Are these still the two best tutorials on setting up a blog with >> Tiddlywiki? Are there any other tutorials? >> >> https://www.didaxy.com/exporting-static-sites-from-tiddlywiki >> >> https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-tiddlywiki >> > > I'm not familiar with nesslabs but the didaxy tutorial pointed me in the > right directions as far as how to get started finding and manipulating the > templates. > > >> >> Also I need tabs in a blog. Didaxy said: >> >> "Only some of Tiddlywiki's functionality translates well into static >> content at the moment. Basic transclusion works great, but the "tabs" macro >> doesn't work at all, for example. If these features turn out to be >> important, they should be fairly straightforward (though not necessarily >> easy) to implement." >> > > A feature such as tabs relies on javascript, which TiddlyWiki is built > on. Since you are basically transferring from the *dynamic* language of > javascript to the *static* language of HTML and CSS you lose that > functionality. And it can be very challenging to put javascript in your > templates because of the security features Tiddlywiki has in place. It is > possible as you can see from the picture galleries in my blog, but without > some knowledge of the DOM, HTML, and CSS you are going to be hitting some > real walls. > > I would suggest starting with an easier solution made specifically for > generating static sites then taking your time doing it with TW. The > problem I always have run into in situations like this is that I get so > caught up in the process of setting it up that when it is working I have no > energy left for actually writing something! > > Best of luck!! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3a1187d5-74d6-4717-bcc9-b4d3519517fen%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3a1187d5-74d6-4717-bcc9-b4d3519517fen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ%2BJh%2BMnMpB%3DzVjLvBKjHZeNCR%2BzU8P2VziKodDAgT0GJEcjFA%40mail.gmail.com.
