The first thing I want to do to automate this is to list a company on just one page, with a form for all of its locations, then have a computer program propagate those listings to all the local pages.
This has the complication that many of those local pages won't exit yet; for example I created the page for Enschede as I was working on Synopsis' listings in Holland.
But a good start would be to only propagate the listings to pages that already exist, with manual work required to create the new local pages.
This because I have to look up the state or province and possibly the county for almost all over the new localities. I also have to create folders for them. From time to time I even list an entirely new country.
While I do plan to use some manner of database by the time I'm done, I don't plan on specifying its schema myself - I'd hire a DBA to do that. I've never really understood why so many people are so into SQL. If I did use SQL I would use PostgrSQL but most likely I won't use SQL.
I'm going to do all the automation in Python, for the simple reason that I'm already good at coding Python. There are many web application technologies, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. I'm not religious about them.
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I just now finished listing all ninety locations for Synopsis:
The first thing I want to do to automate this is to list a company on
just one page, with a form for all of its locations, then have a
computer program propagate those listings to all the local pages.
This has the complication that many of those local pages won't exit
yet; for example I created the page for Enschede as I was working on
Synopsis' listings in Holland.
But a good start would be to only propagate the listings to pages that
already exist, with manual work required to create the new local
pages.
This because I have to look up the state or province and possibly the
county for almost all over the new localities. I also have to create
folders for them. From time to time I even list an entirely new
country.
While I do plan to use some manner of database by the time I'm done, I don't plan on specifying its schema myself - I'd hire a DBA to do that. I've never really understood why so many people are so into SQL. If I did use SQL I would use PostgrSQL but most likely I won't use SQL.
I'm going to do all the automation in Python, for the simple reason
that I'm already good at coding Python. There are many web
application technologies, each with their own strengths and
weaknesses. I'm not religious about them.
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