And Now, For Something Really Amazing…
Okay, here’s something really amazing I can do with Conversant that was basically impossible with a static system. At Overpopulation.Com I have a list of all the countries of the world. The minor amazing part is that web page is one short macro that automatically pulls all of the country names from the underlying directories (since countries don’t change that often, this one is cached to maximize performance).
Anyway, I’m only about 1/3rd of the way through the nations of the world but you can get a flavor of the power of this system by visiting the page about Ethiopia. This page is also generated dynamically and at the moment simply provides links to every article on the site that mentions Ethiopia. It is relatively easy, by the way, to insert static content such as a description of Ethiopia, statistics and a map which I will go through and do in a few weeks.
Linking the content together this way throughout the site is something I’ve always wanted to do, but when you’ve got 230+ countries it becomes almost impossible. With Conversant it happens automatically after a process that probably takes 3 minutes per country to set up.
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Mar 27th, 2001
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