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Rory Perry's Weblog Law, technology, and the courts I'm still working diligently on the templates for the set of pages inside the site at the WV Supreme Court. I'll be using Radio to render a series of category pages to organize the output of regular opinion summaries I author. In the current workflow, I author the summaries as text files, then post to an e-mail subscriber list. Next, I compile the summaries (via cut and paste) on a single HTML page, organized by topic in reverse chronological order. A big disavantage of this system is that a lot of cutting and pasting is involved, and the summary pages can grow long and difficult to read. Using Radio, I can author once and publish to several sources. As a busy lawyer and Clerk of Court, this means a lot to me. Using categories, I will be organizing opinion summaries in other additional formats that will be helpful to the public and practitioners. In addition to Recent Opinions, I'll be adding a series of high-level topical pages: Criminal, Civil, Family, etc. I can route opinion summaries to these pages, as well as news and conference results pertaining to these topical areas. >>Caveat: If you're like me and know only a smidgeon about HTML and XML, the learning curve with Radio can seem steep. Expect to spend a couple of days reading documentation and discussion posts and looking at the source of various pages before things come together. I found this list of tutorials in Adny Sylvester's directory to be very useful. 9:08:55 AM [Permanent Link]
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