Publishing a database as website

Posted by Tester
Aug 15, 2015 at 12:56 PM

Donovan wrote:
>[...] and wish there was a way to duplicate that look on the web.

Yes, that’s a good way to express it: a duplication of the desktop version’s user interface would be fine.

Donovan wrote:
>My biggest question relating to the capabilities of all of these
>concepts is WHY don’t they offer online examples?
>Something like—- “See a sample Rightnote Webbook Live on the Web” type
>a thing.

I miss it too for MyInfo and RightNote. Some other developers offer examples:
I already mentioned TreePad’s own manual. And here you can find a list with “Examples of Websites created with TreePad”: http://www.treepad.com/webgenerator/

There is an another software called “Web Idea Tree” (http://www.webideatree.com/) and they offer an extensive list with examples (not all are still active): http://www.webideatree.com/wit-websites/text/2a1a3a02-319.php
and
http://www.webideatree.com/wit-websites/text/Sites-plus-anciens.php

Maybe that “Web Idea Tree” is a good software but for me it looked a little bit too complicated (not so easy in handling as MyInfo, RightNote etc.). Moreover there were problems with Unicode when displaying sites (although they write that Unicode is supported). So I did not test this program more in detail.

Donovan wrote:
>But why not have examples of these capabilities from MyInfo and
>Rightnote and other note applications with this feature? I would LOVE to
>see them!
>Does anybody here have some addresses they could post of sample sites
>created with MyInfo or the RN webbook?

In the Internet I found one example for a website created with MyInfo:
http://naiadstudios.com/indexdf.html
(I did not really understand what it is about- ;-) But you can see the general structure of such a website.)

And what I can show you is my own website created with MyInfo. Essentially it is a German-Greek (and vice versa) dictionary.

At the moment I have published it in two versions with more or less the same content but in order to see some differences in speed and usability:

A) Here the conventional version with one document (= html file) for every keyword of the dictionary (at the moment about 13.000):
As you see, the site opens very slowly (about 30 seconds I would say) but then you have access to every keyword individually
http://enalexiko.bplaced.net/index.html/

B) In order to avoid the big delay I created a second version where all keywords are in only three documents (html files).
This site opens immediately but of course a delay will happen afterwards, when you try to open one of the three big documents (keywords with German letters A-K, with German letters L to Z and with Greek letters)
http://kompakt.bplaced.net/index.html/

Besides the delay the second shortcoming (in both versions) is the already discussed lack of a built-in search feature. Until now you have to use the search tools of your browser (e.g. via pressing F3). Hopefully this will change in the next upgrade of MyInfo but I do not know it.

Concerning RightNote I could not find specific examples in the Internet but you can get an idea how it looks like from this picture (I have taken it from http://alternativeto.net/software/rightnote/#). The concept is quite good I think:

http://abload.de/img/wb1xsp4x.jpg

1. In the bar are the buttons with the “pages” of your File/notebook, let’s the the chapters of what you would like to present (here: “Boot Camp”, “Features”, “More Features” etc.).

2. On the bottom of the tree you find a search field (filter) where you can search for the title of a certain note (= the items in the tree above). That’s extremely important and useful when you publish for example a dictionary where every note (document / tree item) represents an individual keyword. It works as “Search as you type”: When you start typing in the field, the appropriate notes appear in the tree above.

3. The big button “Search” in the bar offers you the possibility to make a full text search within all your notes and pages. (Not so important for someone who publishes a dictionary but surely quite useful for publishers or users with other needs.)

I have tested the webbook feature of RightNote by myself and can confirm that all looks and works as described above. This was the appearance of my own test webbook:

http://abload.de/img/wb29aqkb.jpg

The most important page in this case is called “Wörterbuch” (= Dictionary) with the list of the keywords in the tree. (I tested it only with a few keywords). And I created two other additional pages (called “Grammatik [= Grammar] and “Links”).
There is again the search field (filter) for the keywords on the bottom of the tree (not shown on the picture) and of course the full search button in the bar.

Generally the webbook of RightNote is a nice concept I think, even with some shortcomings (which could be easily eliminated, I think).