Posted by Susan R Walter on 10-08-2008 13:29
#1
I am currently working on checklists for species in our area of France (37, 36 and 87). My trial run (orchids) is a Google doc imported into Blogger at the moment, and shows scientific name, English name, French name and flowering period. I want the table to also have a column containing links to species accounts and this is where I have run into trouble. My idea was to write the species accounts as individual blog posts which could be linked to, but a) the html for creating a link in Google docs is really clunky, and b) it cannot be made to open in a new window. Consequently, the species accounts all repeat the Blog Heading and look really naff ie the whole page opens, not just that post, plus it's annoying if you are wanting to compare two species not to have them open simultaneously in two separate pages.
I've tried doing the species accounts in Google docs of their own, which is OKish, but they do lose out aesthetically. This is intended to be a website for enthusiastic amateurs, so being pretty as well as informative is a consideration.
The only other ways I can think of to work around it is to make a proper website, but that would involve buying a domain name plus I don't think I'm up to all the extra coding; or create the species accounts as pdf, but this will be slow for the user and a lot of people don't like pdf.
Has anyone done anything similar that I could look at, and does anyone have any ideas for how to make it work?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 10-08-2008 19:15
#2
If the lists are Diptera, I can offer a subdmomain on Diptera.info...
I am sloooooooooooooowly building a plugin for checklists for PHP-Fusion but that will take a while before it is finished.
Posted by Susan R Walter on 11-08-2008 20:59
#3
Thank you Paul - that is very generous. For the time being, I am not doing a Diptera checklist in this series, as we feel they are not 'sexy' enough for the sort of punter we are aiming at. The first lists (and linked species accounts) will be for the more popular/well known groups like orchids, butterflies, dragonflies that we can be reasonably certain there is a demand for from visitors to the area.
And I am pleased to report that the problem with the links and not opening on a new page has been solved.