Publishing a database as website

Posted by Tester
Aug 11, 2015 at 10:37 PM

As most of you will know, various outliners offer the possibility to publish the created data as a website. (As far as I have seen, it works always by exporting the existing data as html files.)

I have tested it with various programs (MyInfo, My Notes Keeper, Memo Book, Ultra Recall etc.) and the result with all of them seems to be more or less the same. That means: not bad, but there are always two weak points for which I could not find a solution:

1) The time delay: If you have a lot of data it takes quite a long time until the website will open (completely). (Obviously because of the big number and/or size of the created html files.)

2) The missing of a (good) search possibility: It seems that a website created (by exporting the html files) cannot offer a “built-in” search possibility (at least for the titles of the documents/items which would be sufficient for my purposes). So the visitor of the website must use the search facility of his browser respectively some add-on (as for example “FindBar Tweak” for Firefox). This works quite good as a workaround but it is by no means a satisfying compensation of a good built-in search facilty.

Please take a look at the following website. Of course it is not created with an outliner software. But as you can see there is a big similarity to the interface of such software and the way the website can be used would perfectly fulfill my needs.

I would like to ask you if you know an outliner software with which you can achieve such a result when exporting the database as a website:

http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/

What you see is an old and famous German dictionary (from the 19th century). (Some technical details about the database – for those who understand German: http://dwb.uni-trier.de/de/die-digitale-version/datenbank/ )

The two weak points mentioned above do not exist here:

- The website opens without delay.

- You have a comfortable search possibilty (for the keywords of the dictionary): On the left you have (above the tree with the keywords) a search field. Type in there a (german) word and you will get immediately the result, for example: “Hund” (= dog) or “Sonne” (= sun).

I use MyInfo as outliner software and I told its developer (Petko) about this website. I am very happy because he told me that the user interface of MyInfo after the next main upgrade (to MyInfo 7) will have quite the same structure as it can be seen on the website (including the excellent search facility!).

So I can say that my needs presumably will be fully satisfied by the next generation of MyInfo concerning the structure/functionality of its interface on the DESKTOP. But I doubt if this structure/functionality will be kept when exporting the data(base) as a WEBSITE.

Of course I could ask Petko but I do not want to be impatient or demanding. ;-) So instead I would like to ask the experts here in the Forum if such a transfer of structure/functionality to the website version of an outliner database is technically possible at all and if there exists already such an outliner software.

Thanks for your interest.