Kipper template foundry

Oops! I corrected a few errors in the recent templates I posted. Nothing serious.

But while working on the first four, I developed a good routine. There is now a real-life Kipper template foundry. It's a special folder on my desktop called "foundry".

This Kipper template foundry is a pretty good example of one variation of use for Kipper. I made a job file called "template-foundry" that is permanently set to that folder. It expects, every time, that the template is called "template.html", regardless of the name of the other files. And the site name is set to "Kipper template foundry", so that it will appear in the top bar of every display page.

This folder is kept empty, so that when I have completed a new template, or if I need to make a slight correction to a template, I can just switch the contents of the template's base folder into the "foundry" just long enough to forge the display page.

One click of Kipper.

Then all I have to do is drop everything back where it belongs, and make the ZIP file. For the template files, I don't bother with Kipper's upload functions. Since I have to upload the ZIP file anyway , along with multiple images and other files, I FTP what I need with a separate client.

Kipper doesn't yet have (and I'm not sure it should have) a file manager for uploading files outside of its current mission (making pages). Enough extra files, and it seems like it's just as well to open that FTP client. I'm not sure if I see a good reason to have Kipper emulate a full FTP client to that degree.

I could maybe see something that uploads images to just a set relative image folder, but then that seems too limiting.

The answer will probably come out of ongoing usage and feedback.

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