Hi,
> I am a total newbie t anything like this and have intermediate html
> skills only.no programming or anything. This looks like it would be a
> good thing for our organization, www.flgenwebarchives.com and
> www.flgenweb.net (very much still in the development phase). A lot
> of our volunteers have no html skills and we need something that they
> can use to create sites with no skills. I have been reading and
> trying to understand what I am reading but it is all way way over my
> head. Can anyone help me to maybe understand a bit better? What I
> found intriguing is that the template page included the same Andreas
> template our organization already uses.
yes, this template is provided with webgen. I imagine you would just
need to update/adjust the CSS file.
Basically, you can create content for your site by not writing HTML but
using a markup language like Textile (via the RedCloth library) or
Markdown (the default, via the Maruku library). All files then use one
(or possibly more) template(s) to create the final HTML file in the
output directory. Images and other assets are copied verbatim to the
output directory.
I would recommend that you just install webgen, follow the Getting
Started Guide
(http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/getting_started.html) and
play around a bit. You can always ask further specific questions on the
mailing list.
> >>From what I read it can be installed on my pc (windowsxp2 sp2) and
> >>our
> webhosting package?
Yes, webgen works under Windows. You will find information on how to
install webgen on Windows on
http://webgen.rubyforge.org/installation.html
Regarding the webhosting package: webgen is an HTML *generator*. This
means that all the HTML files and asset files are generated locally on
your computer and just need to be uploaded to your webhost. This also
means that your webhost doesn''t need to have any dynamic features like
PHP.
-- Thomas