Publishing a database as website

Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 29, 2015 at 11:42 AM

Hi folks,
Well, as a Mac user, I really didn’t want to fall in love with RightNote. But you know what? The Web Book feature is A W E S O M E!

And it has its own built-in search engine. And pretty mobile templates (nice, simple, logical design). It’s the perfect platform for creating simple (read-only) wikis, in other words.

Damn! So I’ve just purchased the Pro upgrade (I bought RightNote Pro while I was still a Windows user, back in 2013) and installed it on one of my headless PCs.

It doesn’t just create pretty web books - it does so quickly, efficiently, and adds a complete search index (which means searches are very fast). The multi-tabbed interface adds an extra level of usefulness - you can effectively use tabs as chapter headings.

It also works well in a browser if you call up the web book through the file system, so it doesn’t need a web server. I have a test book on my Synology NAS, and I can read it (and perform searches) quite happily over a standard CIFS network link. I deliberately didn’t put the test book in one of the web server folders.

Now, if I was going to be Mr. Finicky (okay, okay, I am), I would love to see highlighted search terms in Web Book searches (yeah, I did test that through the web server). But you can’t have everything! I may hassle Rael about that, however…

Thanks for the recommendation, Tester. Now I must resist the temptation to rush out and acquire a super-cheap Windows tablet just so I can play with RightNote on it… ratz!