Koha as a tiny CMS

[jronallo]

Hi,

I wanted to add a few arbitrary pages to my library's website, but did
not want to create static pages or maintain another application. I
also wanted to make it so that someone without lots of HTML experience
could add a page easily. So I made a few changes to a template to
allow a parameter to be accepted. Now when I create certain local
system preferences that content can be inserted into my template.

Here are the steps necessary to do something similar:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfmj5f5d_197f43492f3

Please let me know if you have any problems following these steps. If
anyone knows why this is a bad idea or poorly executed, please let us
know. I wonder if this wouldn't be a good feature for future version,
especially for small libraries?

Is there a good place for the Koha project to keep documentation like
this? I'd be happy to add it wherever it might fit.

Jason
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[jronallo]

I added the instructions to the Koha wiki now here:
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=koha_as_a_tiny_cms

Jason

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Jason Ronallo <jronallo@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to add a few arbitrary pages to my library's website, but did
> not want to create static pages or maintain another application. I
> also wanted to make it so that someone without lots of HTML experience
> could add a page easily. So I made a few changes to a template to
> allow a parameter to be accepted. Now when I create certain local
> system preferences that content can be inserted into my template.
>
> Here are the steps necessary to do something similar:
> http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfmj5f5d_197f43492f3
>
> Please let me know if you have any problems following these steps. If
> anyone knows why this is a bad idea or poorly executed, please let us
> know. I wonder if this wouldn't be a good feature for future version,
> especially for small libraries?
>
> Is there a good place for the Koha project to keep documentation like
> this? I'd be happy to add it wherever it might fit.
>
> Jason
>

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