Recipe Software for the Web

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Hello,
I just signed into this group.

I am putting together a project of making a recipe web site for my
religious organization. I am interested in finding recipe software

that

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generates a recipe web site. I realize that many programs now do so.
However, what I am look for is that the generated web pages includes

a

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recipe sizer, i.e., that will automatically scale from 1 to whatever
servings. Also, being able to import from Master Cook would be a BIG
help.

Thanks in advance

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

Karen,

Our recipe software, BigOven (http://www.bigoven.com), meets two of
those three requests. You can import MasterCook recipes and create
recipe websites with the "Publish to HTML" feature, which includes the
full recipe and any photos you have for the recipes.

However, the recipe website that's generated is static (i.e., you
cannot resize the recipes). However, other users of BigOven for
Windows can import the recipes from your site in a single click and
resize them from within the program. The Publish to HTML feature
generates an index page showing you an alphabetic list of recipes.

Good luck, and happy cooking!

- Steve, with Lakefront Software, Inc.
Maker of BigOven recipe software.
www.bigoven.com

Quoted message said:

Hello,
I just signed into this group.

I am putting together a project of making a recipe web site for my
religious organization. I am interested in finding recipe software

that

Quoted message said:

generates a recipe web site. I realize that many programs now do so.
However, what I am look for is that the generated web pages includes

a

Quoted message said:

recipe sizer, i.e., that will automatically scale from 1 to whatever
servings. Also, being able to import from Master Cook would be a BIG
help.

Thanks in advance

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

Karen,

Our recipe software, BigOven (http://www.bigoven.com), meets two of
those three requests. You can import MasterCook recipes and create
recipe websites with the "Publish to HTML" feature, which includes the
full recipe and any photos you have for the recipes.

However, the recipe website that's generated is static (i.e., you
cannot resize the recipes). However, other users of BigOven for
Windows can import the recipes from your site in a single click and
resize them from within the program. The Publish to HTML feature
generates an index page showing you an alphabetic list of recipes.

Good luck, and happy cooking!

- Steve, with Lakefront Software, Inc.
Maker of BigOven recipe software.
www.bigoven.com

Thanks but I REALLY wanted the scaling feature in a web format -- so
that other people in my religious organization can use it without
themselves having software.

Regards,

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

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Quoted message said:

Hello,
I just signed into this group.

I am putting together a project of making a recipe web site for my
religious organization. I am interested in finding recipe software that
generates a recipe web site. I realize that many programs now do so.
However, what I am look for is that the generated web pages includes a
recipe sizer, i.e., that will automatically scale from 1 to whatever
servings. Also, being able to import from Master Cook would be a BIG
help.

Thanks in advance

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

Karen,

You are right, many programs can create a recipe web site. About every
cooking software I know export recipes to HTML format in a way or
another. But I have the feeling you want something a little too
specialized and you won't find a ready-made solution out there.
Your best chance would be to write (or find somebody to write for you) a
few lines of javascript to do the job. If the list of ingredients is in
table format (it is in pages generated by Shop'NCook), it shouldn't be
very hard to write a script that find the ingredient quantities in the
table and scale them. You can then either add the script to each recipe
pages, or, if you don't want to edit them manually, show the pages in
frame format, with the scaling calculator in a separate frame. Maybe you
can find some help to do that in comp.lang.javascript .

Mite (author of Shop'NCook)
http://www.shopncook.com