Publishing a database as website

Posted by WSP
Aug 12, 2015 at 07:32 AM

Tester, I too am a longtime user of MyInfo, and your comments left me feeling slightly alarmed. Did Petko really say that the user interface of MyInfo 7 will resemble the online German dictionary you cite? (Or was he perhaps only talking about improved speed?) I looked at the website and was impressed by its clever use of columns, but I’m not at all sure that I would want MyInfo itself to resemble this on my computer screen.

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Tester wrote:
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.
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