For my #magic ( #conjuring ) hobby, I catalog videos that make up online courses (most only one video, some multiple) by writing a “timeline” for each, signposting for people where to find particular items in each video. This is currently just written up in Apple Pages, exported as a PDF and shared by Dropbox link. I started a website a while ago using @django to make it more accessible and searchable but never really came up with a completely satisfactory data structure (see pic)
I’ve been looking at @wagtail as an option to improve the site to enable other content to be added as well, but I’m not sure if it’s the best fit. It has a TableBlock which could help me out though and simplify the data, or perhaps I just need to tweak my existing data structure - I haven’t put all the data in there so starting again is an option. If I can auto-generate printable/PDFs even better.
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers that could help me out? Happy to share the link to the existing site and a couple of example PDFs if it’s interesting to anyone. #django#wagtail#wagtailCMS#python#WebDev#WebDevelopment
@jmb Wagtail is a CMS that you can customize and program around. If you already have a Django site, you might end up fighting Wagtail more than what you save on existing structures. I’m developing a wagtail site, but I started from scratch and I only have a few special pages, the rest is CMS content.
@tamas@jmb TableBlock data is stored in JSON so might not be what you’re after if you already have a clear DB schema? But it’s much more flexible since it’s literally just an editable HTML <table> with no constraints.
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