Request: video that walks through how to go from install to setting up basic pages

[shbarton]

I've set up my flowershow site but because I'm not technical (I know the basics of HTML and CSS) I'd love it if there was a video walk-through that showed people how to:

1. Go through the process of installation
2. Make basic edits to the site so that users can:
   • Update navigation bar menu items
   • Create a page that lists the most recent items created for that category (eg. blog, podcast, etc)
   • Make v basic style changes
3. Set up a custom domain

This would probably save me hours of experimenting to try and get something I'm happy with live.

Absolutely love the idea for the project!

[rufuspollock]

@shbarton thanks.

@Gutts-n would you like to look at this?

[Gutts-n]

@shbarton thanks.

@Gutts-n would you like to look at this?

Hey @rufuspollock, sure, I'll start it.

[Gutts-n]

@shbarton when you refer to a custom domain do you mean to change the URI to some custom? e.g. https://gutts-n-notes.com

[shbarton]

@shbarton when you refer to a custom domain do you mean to change the URI to some custom? e.g. https://gutts-n-notes.com

Yeap, exactly!

(accidentally closed this issue, should be reopened now)

[Gutts-n]

@shbarton do you have a domain purchased? To change the domain you need to buy one from a domain registrar after that you can change it.

[shbarton]

@Gutts-n yeap! Tbh the part of the video on custom domains might not be necessary -- i was extrapolating from my experience with Obsidian publish and the need to use cloudfare etc. I would say it's worth including, though, as it's something most people i would imagine would like to do

[Gutts-n]

@shbarton And about this "Create a page that lists the most recent items created for that category (eg. blog, podcast, etc)", are you talking about the obsidian tags? e.g. document1 has the #shop inside it and document2 has the #shop tag inside it too, so these documents are from the same category.

[shbarton]

@Gutts-n yeap, exactly, something like that that appears in a similar way to the blog page on the flowershow site.

Ideally I would be able to configure what get's published on this page. For example:

• All notes with #example and the publish property = TRUE
• All notes with the property 'Podcast' and publish property = TRUE

[olayway]

@Gutts-n I think you could start with adjusting our old tutorials related to blog posts and blog index pages and make them available again for the users. They used to be listed on our website but were taken down temporarily (although for longer than usually planned 😅) after we replaced Contentlayer package with our own MarkdownDB package, so they were no longer relevant.

Here are the original versions (not sure why we had 3 of them, I think one of them was hidden): https://github.com/datopian/flowershow/tree/v1/site/content/docs

And in the current website project they are here (but hidden and incomplete as all the irrelevant content has been removed): https://github.com/datopian/flowershow-app/tree/main/content/docs

Let me know if you need any assistance!