Hi Erich,
You're correct the Personal Page plug-in works via Links but you can then have Community updating Links where appropriate and the plug-in would then in effect be working with Community. If as in my case you are creating articles and not links then the big chunks of data for the article and related data are better managed by links anyway, just like if you used Links for a blog, which is a project I started working on with GT and stopped midway due to other community users having indicated they were working on identical projects. Maybe the wrong choice since nothing has come of them and since I was advocating simple function additions to Links to obtain a blog system rather than a new system (although pugdog had a similar approach).
I suppose I would describe the Personal Page plug-in as a container geared at providing users with the ability to personalize content in a structured manner. You provide globals with values the users can change like how many should I display, in what order, display or not and then it can go as far as enabling them to create content like their own presentation and you could easily have them linking to specific links, articles in the directory / magazine...
The stuctured manner is more of a censorship approach on the visual aspect of the page in that you let people decide what content they publish and then give them different fixed choices as to how to display it, so that it doesn't look like a christmas tree. Not that I want to kill the christmas spirit LOL
, but some personal page systems let people choose between so many conflicting font colours etc.
John
Significant Media
You're correct the Personal Page plug-in works via Links but you can then have Community updating Links where appropriate and the plug-in would then in effect be working with Community. If as in my case you are creating articles and not links then the big chunks of data for the article and related data are better managed by links anyway, just like if you used Links for a blog, which is a project I started working on with GT and stopped midway due to other community users having indicated they were working on identical projects. Maybe the wrong choice since nothing has come of them and since I was advocating simple function additions to Links to obtain a blog system rather than a new system (although pugdog had a similar approach).
I suppose I would describe the Personal Page plug-in as a container geared at providing users with the ability to personalize content in a structured manner. You provide globals with values the users can change like how many should I display, in what order, display or not and then it can go as far as enabling them to create content like their own presentation and you could easily have them linking to specific links, articles in the directory / magazine...
The stuctured manner is more of a censorship approach on the visual aspect of the page in that you let people decide what content they publish and then give them different fixed choices as to how to display it, so that it doesn't look like a christmas tree. Not that I want to kill the christmas spirit LOL
, but some personal page systems let people choose between so many conflicting font colours etc. John
Significant Media
