May 30, 2005 08:05 PM Philippe Normand urn:md5:11329 Alinea http://base-art.net/Articles/40/ Philippe Normand May 30, 2005 08:05 PM <p>Since few weeks i've been working on the next generation of this blog's engine : Alinea3. While Alinea 2 was powered by Webware and ZPT, Alinea3 uses Quixote and Cheetah.</p> <p>The database schema remained quite the same, except for the Roles layer which was added to provide a flow-engine-like system. For instance, <em>Authors</em> can't publish their articles if they don't have the <em>publisher</em> role .. And so on.</p> <p>I still need to make a CSS stylesheet for the <em>admin</em> part of the site, work on non-javascript popups, and make some Rewriting rules to ease the transition between the 2 websites having different url mappings.</p> <p>You can browse my <a class="reference" href="http://dev.base-art.net/">Alinea3 blog</a> and give me feedback :-)</p> http://base-art.net/Articles/17/ Philippe Normand May 30, 2005 08:09 PM <p>I admit my lacks in web design, that's why spent few hours playing w/ CSS. First looked at one really kool from <a class="reference" href="http://csszengarden.com/">cssZenGarden</a>, then used some of its design 'items' and whacked a nice image w/ Gimp (rotate, matrix transforms, cut / paste) to make the header you can admire above :)</p> <p>Switching from old design to new one wasn't really a pain in the ass ... Editing only one ZPT template for all the public part !! admin section stayed old fashion for now ;)</p> <p>Many thanks to <a class="reference" href="http://larsen-b.com/">Jkx</a> for his expert tips on header image and design cosmetics :)</p> http://base-art.net/Articles/4/ Philippe Normand May 30, 2005 08:12 PM <p>Alinea is a blogware developped by:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Jerome Kerdreux</li> <li>Ludovic Bellier</li> <li>Philippe Normand</li> </ul> <p>It uses these technologies:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Python : <a class="reference" href="http://python.org">http://python.org</a></li> <li>Quixote2 : <a class="reference" href="http://quixote.ca">http://quixote.ca</a></li> <li>ReST : <a class="reference" href="http://docutils.sf.net">http://docutils.sf.net</a></li> <li>Cheetah : <a class="reference" href="http://cheetahtemplate.org">http://cheetahtemplate.org</a></li> <li>SQLObject : <a class="reference" href="http://sqlobject.org">http://sqlobject.org</a></li> </ul> <p>Current features are:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>user management</li> <li>articles / Sections</li> <li>hierarchical sections support</li> <li>threaded comments</li> <li>calendar</li> <li>Comments moderation</li> <li>spam protection</li> <li>admin view allowing full control of the beast</li> <li>article edition in ReST, HTML or simple text</li> <li>comment edition in ReST or simple text</li> <li>post preview</li> </ul> <p>For more information, feel free to contact us.</p>