Charlie Veniot, What are modals and modal windows?
On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 8:55:42 PM UTC+8 Sapphireslinger wrote: > Charlie Veniot, > > Thank you for pointing out the Detail Widget. After visiting your website, > I began using it and it is making a big difference in my note-taking > Tiddlywiki, so it will probably be good for my blog Tiddlywiki as well. > > Your suggestion to show content only on the "Home" tiddler as the window > to everything "so that user never needs to use the browser back button" > felt like it would run counter to a desire to de-clutter my home page but > it is an extremely intriguing idea that I keep thinking about and will try > out. > > On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 10:19:45 PM UTC+8 cj.v...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> G'day, >> >> If I were to create a blog with TiddlyWiki, I think I would be adopting >> the "architecture" of my personal website à la TiddlyWiki >> <https://cjveniot.neocities.org/CjVeniot.html>. >> >> >> - auto-hide the TiddlyWiki sidebar because it is, to me, strictly for >> TiddlyWiki users (i.e. overkill for blog readers) >> - setup nice side bar on the left for static stuff >> - maybe some things that open modal windows >> - never anything that changes anything in the story river >> - never show anything other than the "Home" tiddler in the story river >> - show content only in the "Home" tiddler (i.e. it is the window to >> everything) >> - to keep the amount of content manageable >> - use Details and/or reveal widgets >> - make heavy use of modals >> - so everything designed so that the user never needs to use the >> browser "back" button >> >> Just throwing all of that out there in case it helps you dream up some >> interesting ideas. >> >> Cheers ! >> >> On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 4:13:31 AM UTC-4 Sapphireslinger wrote: >> >>> 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 <digit...@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+...@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. 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