Hi Michael

--- "Michael G. Kaiser" wrote:
> So the actual question: is it best to use the sections feature to divide
> into politics, science etc. or should I create topics? actually If
> someone explained how everything on tol.cz is done it would be great,
> because imo they use all the features of campsite you can think of.
> There are (were?) some templates of tol.cz online, they seem to be outdated.
First you should identify the sections of your publication (any publication
must have at least one section). For example what you see on
http://www.time.com/time/ in the left menu: Home, Nation, World etc. - they are
sections. Topics are a little bit different and you can assign many topics to a
single article, unlike sections: an article can be in a single section at one
time.

Here is an example: you have an article dealing with politics in Russia. So you
have two topics here: politics and Russia. Now if you scan for articles about
politics you'll get one list of articles; if you scan for articles about Russia
you'll get a different list of articles but this specific article will be in
both lists.


> I'm afraid it's kind of a fuzzy question now, but I think many users of
> campsite would appreciate something like a case study, that shows some
> recipes how to do things like the tol.cz archive or how the home page
> was done. The documentation is quite comprehensive but a little abstract.
I agree with you and we have a volunteer who wants to help rewrite the manual
and make it more user friendly. Regarding the tol site, Braja should give more
details, he is the main architect of the site.

Regards,
Mugur




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Hi Sean,

I'd really appreciate you sending me the templates (best to
campsite@m75.de).

Concerning the manual: I don't think the current manual is bad! As an
reference it's quite useful!
But I also think it should be accompanied by some more sophisticated
templates as examples. Another
thing that comes to my mind is a Cookbook (like the O'Reilly series) that
has a problem-recipe-discussion
structure. I really like those because if you have a problem you can find a
solution without going through
a complete manual and if they are well done you start to get the bigger
picture and understand the
whole system by reading the discussions. Another plus is that this kind of
document can easily be written
distributed.

Many thanks,
Michael


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Flynn [mailto:sflynn@tec-man.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:57 PM
> To: campsite-support@campware.org
> Subject: RE: [campsite-support] Sections, Topics and Issues
>
> Hi Michael.
>
> Sorry for the delayed response - my internet connection is a
> challenge.
>
> I agree that the manual is too abstract and I had similar
> difficulties at the beginning of campsite use. It was surely
> worth the time in the end however.
>
> I's be ahppy to send you a copy of our templates if you wish
> and I'll try to comment them for you if you that will be
> useful. I don't know that they are the best templates in town
> but they work for us (with help of course) and may provide
> starting point examples for you.
>
> Regards
> Sean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael G. Kaiser [mailto:campsite@m75.de]
> Sent: Domingo, 04 de Julio de 2004 10:49 a.m.
> To: campsite-support@campware.org
> Subject: [campsite-support] Sections, Topics and Issues
>
>
> Hello!
>
> After playing around with Campsite for a while and being
> really impressed I got a little confused on how to use some
> of its features.
>
> We are planning to set up a magazine-like site, that somehow
> resembles the structure of sites like time.com, tol.cz or any
> other real news site (no blog!!!). We want to have sections
> like politics, science etc. and within these commentaries,
> usual articles and shortnews.
>
> So the actual question: is it best to use the sections
> feature to divide into politics, science etc. or should I
> create topics? actually If someone explained how everything
> on tol.cz is done it would be great, because imo they use all
> the features of campsite you can think of.
> There are (were?) some templates of tol.cz online, they seem
> to be outdated.
>
> I'm afraid it's kind of a fuzzy question now, but I think
> many users of campsite would appreciate something like a case
> study, that shows some recipes how to do things like the
> tol.cz archive or how the home page was done. The
> documentation is quite comprehensive but a little abstract.
>
> Kind regards,
> Michael
>
>
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