[hunchentoot-devel] Using Hunchentoot and cl-who with other people (non-coders)

[Nick Allen]

Hello Larry

I emphatically second everyone else's advice: If you want to work with
a designer you need to use a templating system.

As someone who has actually journeyed down the other path and worked
with a designer to engineer a reasonably complex web app using an
embedded lisp approach (http://github.com/nallen05/watershed) I can
tell you that it was without a doubt the worst technical decision of
my life and it resulted in much wailing and gnashing of the teeth from
everyone involved, including myself...

Thankfully, for the next iteration of the same project, I had a chance
to port of the Django templating language to Common Lisp:

   http://cloud.github.com/downloads/nallen05/djula/generated-documentation-djula-v0.2.html
   http://github.com/nallen05/djula

and it was very much well received by both the designer and
programmers involved until the project was finally ported to Python
sometime after I left.

Anyways, good luck with your project

Take care

Nick

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote:
> For this kind of cooperation, people usually use templating systems
> like, for example, my HTML-TEMPLATE.  My experience is that this works
> quite well, at least to a certain extent.
>
> Edi.
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
>> Hi, list,
>>
>> I am developing my first web app of any kind.  I've no experience with
>> other web app frameworks (like RoR or what have you).  I am working
>> with a friend, who knows Dreamweaver and other fairly high level
>> web-design tools, but can't code at all.  On the other hand, I don't
>> know web-design at all, using tools or not, so we're pretty
>> complementary.
>>
>> So I'm seeking guidance on how I can continue to develop using
>> Hunchentoot and cl-who, and yet integrate machine-generated html or
>> css or what have you from Dreamweaver or other tools?
>>
>> As I understand it, this is a known difficulty that other teams and
>> tool designers have faced, and if I'd ever worked with any other teams
>> or tools then it might be a no-brainer, but given my lack of
>> experience in this respect I'm not even sure what to Google to find
>> answers for myself.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any advice, links, pointers, etc, that users of
>> Hunchentoot and/or cl-who could provide.  Thanks!
>>
>> -- Larry Clapp
>>
>>
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