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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Prefered method of setting up a site
From:       Børge_Holen <borge () arivene ! net>
Date:       2006-06-26 22:30:29
Message-ID: 200606270030.29997.borge () arivene ! net
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On Monday 26 June 2006 14:06, Brandon Sussman wrote:
> | Does anyone have a opinion or a pro/con list on how to set up a site
> | with many pages?
>
> If the site is very trivial and you will not be making many changes
> (content, appearance, anything, use templates.  tbs is a very good
> templating engine. If it will not do what you need, you should think very
> hard about what you need.
>
> However, scratch-built sites are not really the best use of your skills.
>
> For anything more than a couple of pages, use a Content Management System.
>
> Joomla, phpWebsite, MDPro, xaraya are all possibilities.   There are many,
> many more.  The trick is to avoid spending weeks evaluating them all.  Find
> sites you like or ones that do what you need to build - figure out which
> CMS they use.
>
> Some are optimized for particular types of sites.  All have significant
> layout flexibility.
>
> You will need to learn how each builds it's site appearance templates. 
> This is a significant effort so try to decide which package maps your
> intended client(s).
>
> Once you have mastered the templating of your CMS, implementing new sites
> becomes trivial, allowing concentration on the content, which is much more
> important.
>
> IMO, is more important to learn one CMS well than waste time figuring out
> which is best.

A very good idea, but does not actually answer my questions about how page 
layout should appear from the brower kind of view.

Børge

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