As much as I value WordPress my personal belief is tiddlywiki would be ideal, I would start with others book style wikis to get going.
I understand the value of static websites for search may be valuable however the interactive wiki offers much more. The compromise would be a static site on which every page link opens the interactive wiki, add a splash screen to inform them you are loading the whole book for easy search. I started building a template to support this but not completed it yet. Hopefully someone has done it and can share a revised template for its export. If you can serve a node implementation securely on the internet would be better and it can automatically serve both static and interactive content. By the way 70,000 words with an average length 490,000 characters, Not even half a Megabyte is trivial, I have happily used 6-12Mb single file wikis without any concern. Tones On Friday, 11 June 2021 at 23:03:06 UTC+10 iamdar...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello! > > As much as I love TiddlyWiki and think it could work for your use cases, I > feel I would be remiss to not point out another option: *WordPress* > > > > On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 7:37:42 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote: > >> Hi Kosmaton >> >> You could use TiddlyWiki in node.js, and export and upload tiddlers to >> your free webhosting service as static htmls, no database needed. With some >> CSS, you could design it as you wish, in a way that it doesn't look >> TiddlyWiki-ish, and there are plugins to make the layout mobile-friendly. >> The book page, home page and news page are all doable. The book page could >> be handled with details elements (HTML, not the details widget plugin) and >> transclusions. So yes, everything you mentioned can be done. >> >> Alternately, you could do the same with a regular standalone TW uploaded >> to your free webhosting service. Doing it as a standalone means the opening >> page would not load as quickly as a small static html page, but most people >> wouldn't notice the difference, and it would give you many more options for >> how to handle the book page, for example the table of contents feature in >> TiddlyWiki. >> >> What might not work, though I may be wrong, is having a user comments >> section, but then you did not mention that. I know there is at least one >> user comments plugin, but I haven't played with it. >> >> On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:28:54 PM UTC-5 Kosmaton wrote: >> >>> Hello Tiddly people, >>> >>> I'm meaning to create a new website, and I'd like to ask your opinion >>> whether TiddlyWiki is the right tool (or one of the tools) for it. >>> >>> I used to have a pre-TW5 site on TiddlySpace back in the day. I'm >>> semi-programming-and-webdesign-literate, in an ad hoc and rusty way. No >>> experience with databases unfortunately, which may be relevant. >>> >>> The website I have in mind would be a combination of a non-fiction book >>> (already written, but expandable/changeable), and an associated blog. The >>> book is organized as a big tree of numbered paragraphs/sections: 1, 1.1, >>> 1.1.1, 1.2, 2, 2.1 etc. These sections frequently refer to one another; >>> it's a hypertext in itself. >>> >>> * The site would mainly need to have: >>> >>> 1) a page that displays the book, with a Table of Contents. >>> - The TOC should be hideable as a whole. >>> - The branches of the TOC should be collapsible, i.e. click on 1 to >>> show 1.1 and 1.2, click again to hide them, etc. >>> - It may be excessive to load all the text of the book (all the >>> sections) into the viewport (some 70,000 words). But it would be nice if >>> the reader saw a bit more than just the section they're currently reading. >>> Basically a pdf-reader-like experience would be good. >>> - optional: Sections of the book may get revisions, and the visitor >>> should be able to see the revisions. (This would probably get a lot more >>> complicated if I want to allow for reordering, deletion and creation of >>> sections...) >>> - The book currently exists as a LibreOffice Writer .odt file, with >>> sections actually organized as headings. Ideally I'd like to automate the >>> process of getting them into the TiddlyWiki. >>> >>> 2) a blog/news page >>> - Blog posts are expected to regularly contain links to book sections, >>> or entire transcluded sections. >>> - Posts must be able to acommodate audio files; a regular HTML <audio >>> controls> seems sufficient. >>> >>> 3) a Home page that could e.g. display >>> - the most recent blog post (truncated if necessary) >>> - a sort of carousel widget with single sections from the book, with >>> arrows left and right to flip through them. These sections could be either >>> randomly taken from the whole book, or from a hand-picked subset of >>> sections (which I should be able to adjust). >>> >>> * The thing really ought to be 'responsive', i.e. look fine on small >>> screens too. This might not be obvious for something like the TOC. >>> >>> * Towards the visitor it should not present a very TiddlyWikish face. >>> I'm keen to acknowledge/praise/recommend TW in the About page; but the >>> casual visitor should not focus on the underlying tech. >>> >>> * I don't intend to have a server of my own. The free webhost I've >>> happily used before allows for up to 2 databases, with a choice between >>> "5.7-MySQL . 10.5-MariaDB . 13.2-PgSQL". >>> >>> So: >>> >>> Does this sound feasible with TW5 as a base? (Or would you suggest some >>> other framework? If it's /challenging/ with TW, but /easy&fun/ with XYZ, >>> I'd like to hear about XYZ too! :) >>> >>> How would I set this up as far as server / databases etc. go? >>> >>> If I go ahead with this, there's bound to be more detailed questions >>> regarding the functionalities mentioned above; but if you already see any >>> immediate solutions (plugins, say) please shout. >>> >>> Apologies for the length of this post. I don't expect anyone to figure >>> all this out for me, but any thoughts are very welcome. Many thanks in >>> advance! >>> >>> K. >>> >> -- 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/7df0661f-cdcb-4a84-b5f3-d89354e41acdn%40googlegroups.com.
