Lightning Notes [A Simple Blogging System]
A simple web-logging system, created as a proof-of-concept in 2003. Fully standards compliant and accessible, it is designed to quickly set up a functional and structured site to conveniently track related and unrelated items.
A simple web-logging system, created as a proof-of-concept in 2003. Fully standards compliant and accessible, it is designed to quickly set up a functional and structured site to conveniently track related and unrelated items.
Written in PHP, using a flat-file, XML database, outputting an XHTML page with CSS skins.
A sample installation lives at alexanderbecker.net/lightningnotes/.
The code is available on Sourceforge.
The code is available on Sourceforge.
A post in Lightning Notes with highlighted search term.
Lightning Notes style-switched to gray.
Lightning Notes entry form.
Previewing a post in the Lightning Notes entry form.
Features:
• Text-input with Textile
• XHTML-output with CSS skins
• RDF-output for feed readers
• Search and highlight search terms across entries
• Search bookmarklet
• Parsing OPML-feeds
• Customizations through a config-file
• Data stored in one XML-file
• XHTML-output with CSS skins
• RDF-output for feed readers
• Search and highlight search terms across entries
• Search bookmarklet
• Parsing OPML-feeds
• Customizations through a config-file
• Data stored in one XML-file
Lightning Notes doesn't let you edit an entry after it's published. This is a feature -- you get a preview, which is editable and when the post is published, it's published. The end user can't change it anymore. Uses: Accountability, lab journals, etc...