From quanta  Thu Oct 27 23:24:51 2005
From: Brandon Sussman <Brandon () WebsterRidge ! com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:24:51 +0000
To: quanta
Subject: Re: [Quanta] Updates and chages on pages
Message-Id: <436161C3.402 () WebsterRidge ! com>
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fayer wrote on 10/27/2005 05:22 PM:
| Hi,
| Could anyone share with his way of designing webpages which are  easy to
| update? Do I really have to edit every page to make changes for e.g. in
| the menu section?

The first thing to realize is that splitting content from presentation is very
important - using CSS, php and the concept of one copy (for things like your
header, footer, etc) that is 'included' in where desired.

For very heavyweight solutions, content management is really a good way to do
it.  phpWebSite and Zaraya come to mind.

For something a little less 'industrial strength', look at php class that do
templating - my favorite is tbs ( http://www.tinybutstrong.com/ ).  The power
and flexibility is very good.  The competition is strong - Smarty and a host
of others are out there.  Did I mention that tbs is my favorite?

http://marywillsussman.com/gallery/pages/lectWs.php is a very simple example
of using tbs - the owner of the site keeps adding and deleting classes and the
page happily renders, including all the current ones.  The kind of thing you
want to do may be even simpler to do than this - the tbs page has many, many
examples.

Another example - www.spinnernet.com - uses SSI includes to do the link bar.

The html code:

<div class="linkbar">
<!--#include virtual="xxxxxxxxxxxx/hdrlinks.txt"-->
</div>

the contents of hdrlinks.txt:

<!-- begin header links -->
<a class="linkbar" href="/">Home</a>&nbsp;
<a class="linkbar" href="/gallery/pages/bio.shtml">Bio</a>&nbsp;
<a class="linkbar" href="/gallery/">Gallery</a>&nbsp;
<a class="linkbar" href="/gallery/pages/events.php">Events and
Exhibitions</a>&nbsp;
<a class="linkbar" href="/gallery/pages/commissions.shtml">Commissions</a>
<!--<a class="linkbar" href="/gallery/pages/community.shtml">Community</a>-->
<!-- end    header links -->

There are many ways to do it - I think the php dynamic page generation
available today is the best.

- - HTH, Brandon
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