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-dju... 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@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@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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