Tips for using TW as a Website

[nanbudh]

Hi,
I wish to use to tw as website for my institution. Please suggest
which plugins do i need to use in order to achieve the following:
* Hide the Edit button when viewing tw over http.
* hide all the systemConfig and other tw modification tiddlers over
http.
* Also preferably all the above should become visible through a
password plugin/macro so i that I dont have to tough the TW core
script.
* I also wish to beautify my website a bit so please suggest what all
the colors in the ColorPallete mean?
Thanks for any response.
nanbudh

[Daniel Baird]

I think you want Saq's presentation setup. I couldn't easily find it
from Saq's own site http://lewcid.org ; you can get a TW already set
up with it at http://tiddlyspot.com .

Saq also runs http://tiddlythemes.com where you can find some nice themes.

Cheers
;Daniel

--
Daniel Baird
They say a million monkeys typing will eventually produce Shakespeare.
Thanks to commenters on YouTube, we now know this is not true.

[Ken Girard]

nanbudh,
You can check out the publisher set up at:
http://lewcid.googlepages.com/presentation_empty_full.html

And totally off topic:

>They say a million monkeys typing will eventually produce Shakespeare.
>Thanks to commenters on YouTube, we now know this is not true.

Daniel, I disagree with this statement.
Not more then 53 of those commenters on YouTube were actual monkeys.
And suggesting that some of those commenters were monkeys is insulting
to the monkeys.

Happy New Year everyone,
Ken Girard

On Dec 31 2007, 9:52 pm, "Daniel Baird" <danielba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you want Saq's presentation setup. I couldn't easily find it

> from Saq's own sitehttp://lewcid.org; you can get a TW already set

> up with it athttp://tiddlyspot.com.
>

> Saq also runshttp://tiddlythemes.comwhere you can find some nice themes.
>
> Cheers
> ;Daniel

[Morris Gray]

> * I also wish to beautify my website a bit so please suggest what all the
> colors in the ColorPallete mean?

Here is a standard ColorPalette and the sections of the TiddlyWiki
that the ColorPalette affects.
http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com/#TiddlyWikiColors

Morris Gray
http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com
A TiddlyWiki help file for beginners

[Daniel Baird]

On 1/1/08, Ken Girard <ken.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> nanbudh,
> You can check out the publisher set up at:
> http://lewcid.googlepages.com/presentation_empty_full.html

Note that there are two things in that page.. an actual slideshow
displaying thing, whuch you don't want, and a way to show one layout
to normal people and another layout to youself -- which is what you
want.

If you open this link, you'll see the author version of the same page:
http://lewcid.googlepages.com/presentation_empty_full.html#author:true

>
> And totally off topic:
> >They say a million monkeys typing will eventually produce Shakespeare.
> >Thanks to commenters on YouTube, we now know this is not true.
>
> Daniel, I disagree with this statement.
> Not more then 53 of those commenters on YouTube were actual monkeys.
> And suggesting that some of those commenters were monkeys is insulting
> to the monkeys.

Like all nerd jokes, I was inspired by xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/202/

:)

[wolfgang]

Hi nanbudh,

beside what already was suggested, you might take a further look at
ChangeModePlugin made by BidiX. It's actually a build on and
adaptation of PresentationPlugin with one more mode: Admin additional
to Author and Reader. Here its link:

http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#ChangeModePlugin

Regards,

W.


On 1 Jan., 09:50, "Daniel Baird" <danielba...@gmail.com> wrote:

[FND]

> Here is a standard ColorPalette and the sections of the TiddlyWiki
> that the ColorPalette affects.

In addition to that overview, you might find use for the
PaletteViewMacro (e.g. to compare different themes' ColorPalettes):
http://devpad.tiddlyspot.com/#PaletteViewMacro

-- F.

[Ken Girard]

And then there is the other option: Use the HideWhen plugin so that if
the user name is 'XYZ' then it shows one set of toolbars, and a
different set if the user name is anything else.

<span macro="showWhen tiddler.modifier == 'XYZ'">
<span macro='toolbar editTiddler'></span>
</span>

You can also make it so that the edit button shows up if it is a local
file, but not if it is being viewed over http.
Same for things like newTiddler, save, etc.

Ken Girard

[nanbudh]

Thank you all for so much info. I needed it as I am a bit overwhelmed
by all the TW options/adaptations and plugins and tweaks etc. It ll
take some time to digest it all in. Thanks for your responses.

nanbudh

[JaredFreeman]

Nanbudh -- The current version of tiddlywiki (v2.3.0) automatically
hides the edit button and systemConfig menu when the tiddlywiki is
accessed at an http address. I can't recall if this is the default
configuration, or if you have to set one of the configuration options
but it's there and it works. See jaredfreeman.com for an example.
Using t.w. in this way requires that you edit locally (on your system)
and then post the file to your server (via Putty, WinSCP, or some
other free utility). There are other solutions, but this is so simple
(edit locally, open WinSCP session, drag and drop edited file to
server, close) that I, for one, haven't bothered with them. If you
need to enable others to edit your website, though, you will need to
look into those solutions. -- Jared

[Eric Shulman]

> Nanbudh -- The current version of tiddlywiki (v2.3.0) automatically
> hides the edit button and systemConfig menu when the tiddlywiki is
> accessed at an http address. I can't recall if this is the default

Actually, the "edit" button is NOT hidden... it is just changed to
"view"... and when you press it, you still get a regular tiddler
editor display and can see the tiddler source definition, but the text
area is disabled so you can't *change* that definition.

I think that Nanbudh wants to *remove* that toolbar command when
viewing over HTTP, so that visitors to his site won't be able to view
the tiddler source definitions.

Also... by "systemConfig" menu, I am guessing you mean the Backstage
menu... in which case then, yes, viewing over HTTP *does* hide the
Backstage menu by default.

Note: both of these TW standard behaviors can be overridden by
clearing the "Hide editing features when viewed over HTTP" checkbox
(see [[AdvancedOptions]])

-e