[Gramps-devel] Advanced Web page generator

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

Hi,

In light of recent discussions on gramps-users concerning many proposed
improvements to the GRAMPS's web page generator, it seems that all these
enhancements (and many more) can be better served by writing a new
advanced plugin for web page generation.

The rationale is that some users are fairly content with existing
capabilities of the web generator and would not appreciate a dialog
with hundred and fifty adjustable options to create their web site.
These user could use the existing plugin.

The users who would like to go beyond of what's available in this basic
generator would be welcome to use the new advanced plugin.

Before we go ahead and start writing heaps of python code, it is critical
to discuss what would the people like to see in such an advanced plugin.
The proposed enhancements included per-section templating, per-section
galleries, optional separate galleries, extrenal stylesheets, additional
information to be included in the web site, etc.

One can also add nice modern bells and whistles like XML-inspired structure
(DIVs, SPANs, etc), maybe dynamic menus, and whatever else the 21st century
has in stock for that matter :-)

The wiki web page dedicated to creating this plugin is located at
   http://gramps.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/AdvancedWebPageGenerator

Please feel free to read through, correct errors, add your thoughts,
and otherwise invest some of your time into this plugin's creation.
The more you contribute (not the code at this point yet, just the thoughts
and suggestions), the more the outcome will be to your liking.

If you would like to discuss things, gramps-users list seems like a good
place for it.

Thanks,
Alex

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