I recently inherited a site that is developed using eyeglass frames. I’m going to lose frames.. so by using 400 html records, would it possibly be better to re-design your website using templates.. or server-side includes. I don’t see the templated information being changed too often. Explanations welcome.. I’m not too experienced with SSI’s
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Jayell
hmm i do not know
Jayell, templates and SSI may not be mutually exclusive; typically templates would employ SSI. If you have that lots of pages I would certainly go for any SSI functionality… you’ll probably decide to look into using CSS div layers to position your own various elements for the page, in order to generate the page work from a similar way towards the existing frames features. As for the SSI itself feel free to use various technologies to complete it; php, or shtml or (if you are on Windows servers) asp.
Either that or download one of many various template established Content Management solutions… phpnuke, postnuke, Xoops, Mambo and so on… they all enable template based design with user CPanel and so forth… really depends what are the site you are after… if you wish this sort with functionality installing a preexisting piece of software might be the answer. The sole slight drawback is the fact that you tend for getting tied into any fairly standard " appear and feel" (unless you’re a genuine whizz at template design and can turn it with its head) which you may not want… guess it depends on the site!
Sean
Absolutely nothing worng with eyeglasses, if it matches they application/use
Sorry, Sean, somehow POST didn’t realized you can responded.. days in the past
I tried utilizing SSIs in Dreamweaver and it also seemed very uncomfortable (my page decided not to show properly inside ‘design view’).. but it surely seems like a far greater idea than templates alone. Perhaps if I research it a bit more.
Thanks for your input.. I’m pretty low on the skill contour: ermm:
Jayell
SSIs wont appear right in the design view unless you’ve got a testing server developed, and even then it’s a pain. Thre reason for the reason being the SERVER truly does the like, so your computer system has no idea the way to interpret the consist of commands(usually).
I became afraid that was the situation.. but thanks for explaining the information. That’ll probably be enough to keep me from using them because of this project.
Jayell
You should be able to view shtml consist of files offline inside Dreamweaver. Granted, this will never be the case with php, but standard SSI must be fine… have a get and see the time you get.
Sean
Will offer it another move. I really choose to find a greater solution than pure templates, and I need to start this project pretty speedily.
Jayell
I finally bought my SSIs to work properly in Dreamweaver!! Yes me: classic:
Another consideration I have. Let’s assume WHEN I design this (200-400 page)site.. then pass this along to someone who would not use Dreamweaver. A few pointer then be looking to design the website entirely in SSIs, NOT using just about any Dreamweaver templates (assume for your moment my only options are SSIs and also DW templates).. meaning if i use DW web themes, does that not mean they would have considerably redesigning to perform to make it work with them
It is a volunteer organization, so we do not own lots of experienced Web site designers, so this can be a serious consideration before I get rolling.
Jayell
I are not aware of much about Dreamweaver templates, specifically, but I’d consider that what you get with on your page can be fine whether or not you have Dreamweaver or perhaps not… the visitors in your site won’t own anything special, so I’d guess which the only reason they may be called DW Templates is because they’re supplied considering the product
Sorry… but I don’t utilize WYSIWYG editors whatsoever so am not an experienced on this like thing…
Sean.