I came looking for More (grin) ... first day questions

Radio-Outline@userland.com Radio-Outline@userland.com
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:41:49 -0700


I've been using More for a long while in group project management, as a=
 student of an old friend who made it his professional tool of choice. =
It was the tool that let me run a five year soil conservation/native pl=
ant propagation project that's finished now but for writing the final r=
eport.  I've now got several others involved and am hoping I can use th=
e outliner to write online with them.

There seem to be about four peop=
le using the outliner now, here?

Simplest question (possibly applies t=
o Radio also) -- does the tool produce a web page product that anyone c=
an look at (if not edit) with any browser?  Or is the material only acc=
essible to people who own the appropriate UserLand software?  I underst=
and, I think, that to editing an outline requires having Radio installe=
d on the user's personal computer.

Next, can I have the outliner inclu=
de links that will open a new window while keeping the outline open?

I=
'd like to create an outline that includes, for instance, a flora (plan=
t species list for a site, which is being revised every few weeks) --  =
and have links that go back and forth from it to a page with a grid of =
adjacent thumbnail pictures (that would have several links behind each =
one, to open a better image, to open to an outline heading operating as=
 a flat file database (effectively allowing a simple GIS, graphics info=
rmation system database structure).

I started trying this with the 'ed=
ityourpage' site and gave up, but seeing the outliner available gives m=
e hope I can use this for real shared work on a project for which I nee=
d to write a final large report.

Much of the actual graphics and data =
files are going to be hosted, eventually or right away if possible, at =
calflora.org -- but they have no authoring system there so I hope to ha=
ve the writing done with Radio's outliner.  The contributors are scatte=
red across northern California.