Café de Nuit

Hi,

this is to tell you Joël has sent me the file and I've been taking a loot at it.
It can easily be put into a convenient format without automatic cross-referencing (links): Excel, Access, Plain Text, etc.

The point is, there should be a program on top of that storage format that could retrieve the information and decorate it with a nice page. What do you think would be the most convenient form to read? An HTML page? A word document with links or something else?

I don't have experience with wiki, so I don't know if they extract their information from a DB. I didn't want to do something that gave me a lot of work if then it wouldn't be useful, so I'm trying to understand where we should go from here.

Bottomline is: the info is easily retrieveable.

Ail

Ail wrote:The point is, there should be a program on top of that storage format that could retrieve the information and decorate it with a nice page. What do you think would be the most convenient form to read? An HTML page? A word document with links or something else?

Right, that's exactly what wiki or dbman would do. I think html is best. A word document would be cumbersome I think. Aside from crashing every now and then, I think the catalogue as it stands at the K site is pretty perfect. And if it's up on a maintained site, the crashing shouldn't be an issue. If people want a downloadable form, we could work on that too.

I don't have experience with wiki, so I don't know if they extract their information from a DB. I didn't want to do something that gave me a lot of work if then it wouldn't be useful, so I'm trying to understand where we should go from here.

Wiki does extract it's info from a db, but different wiki programs use different db formats. Since this file was formatted for dbman, and it's free, I see no reason not to just continue using it.

Unfortunately my web server doesn't allow scripting, so I can't take it for a test-drive in my sandbox. But if the FoS is willing to turn over the keys to their site temporarily, I think I could set up dbman here pretty quickly.

gonzoron wrote:Wiki does extract it's info from a db, but different wiki programs use different db formats. Since this file was formatted for dbman, and it's free, I see no reason not to just continue using it.

Unfortunately my web server doesn't allow scripting, so I can't take it for a test-drive in my sandbox. But if the FoS is willing to turn over the keys to their site temporarily, I think I could set up dbman here pretty quickly.

I second that. It would be the easiest way.
Plus, being online meant that it could be updated and expanded.
As it is, though, I have all the information always available at my fingertips without minimum searching

Ail

Ail

Yeah, that was me. Now the Ravenloft catalogue is back though, I'm pretty much halting it, as I don't have that much database space, unfortunately (certainly not enough for a Wiki that anyone can edit).