Thanks to WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, the first three huge powerhouses of website software for the common person, a few basic terms have become too complicated to understand. No one agrees on definitions for these important terms. These are my definitions. A Web Page A web page is what loads in a browser when you surf to a URL A Web Post A web post is a record added to a database for display on a website. A post can be displayed by it self on a page or it can be displayed with other posts. A website can have many different kinds of posts. Templates Too much to explain now. Demos I am typing a post into a website now. Here is a screen shot of what that looks like Here is a closer view of the table where threads are stored by this system. Threads are a kind of post. Replies to threads are another kind of post, stored in a different table in this system, which is called xf_post. Here is a shot of some data from the xf_post data. There is no reason that threads have to be in a different table than replies to threads. That is just the way XF did it. I created my blog for the purpose of getting a handle on what pages and posts are. Since I was unclear how websites worked, I used the term blurb for post. The way I add to my website is to create a blurb. Here is a screen shot of a blurb I am making on my website right now. Pushing the submit button on both posts to see what we have so far.
Here is a shot at how the post came out on its own page on my blog. I know the styling is aweful. The same post appears on another website that needs to come out of mothballs, where the styling is a little better. The missing pictures at the top provided by the other site, which is offline. Good example of bad coupling. Here is a shot at the edit screen on my blog: That last field, dogPiece, tell the blog where to put this post. Tac, the default, means do not display publicly. To put it in the public sidebar, I will change it to something else, I don't remember now. The position field is used for ordering the entries. So now, the front page of the site has that entry at the top.
yes, I took those pictures in Vermont. All except the one of me driving a Forumla 1 car. That isn't really me.
