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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: Re: [2NDST] SS and search engines
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:50:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <bd1.17aea94c.340dc3a5@aol.com>


wrote, in part:
> I do know how to write basic HTML enough to put up a few websites
> for myself.

Evelyn,

With that knowledge, you should be able to spice up the contents of your
main page, and add custom pages (if you want) to provide information that is
not present in your TMG project...

> I have no idea what XML is.

Most users do not have to know or care that SS uses XML.

XML is a computer language used most often to share data between
applications. It is similar to HTML; both HTML and XML are based on a common
technology called SGML. Second Site uses XML behind the scenes to create the
HTML pages because there is an XML facility called XSLT that transforms XML
into HTML. XSLT allows logic to be applied during that process and so the
same XML can be used to create different output formats by varying the XSTL
step. The difference between the Three Column Format and the Bullets Format,
for example, is all in the XSLT step.

> But I am on the side of those who say SS can be used by anyone
> straight out of the box. I havent yet departed from the defaults
> provided by John and they look good enought to me.

I am glad to hear that. That's the idea: provide a tool that is useful right
out of the box but can be customized to varying degrees as needed/wanted.

John





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