On 25-Dec-2001 Greg Gilbert wrote: > * Jan Schaumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> IMHO, nothing but pure (_valid_ !) HTML (4.01) including stylesheets >> /or/ XHTML is needed. The site is to be purely informational and does >> not need *any*thing dynamic as far as I can tell. I would vote against >> PHP or Perl etc. > > PHP isnt only useful for dynamic content, it's also useful for > keeping a conistant page layout without having to maintain every > single page. I often find it helpful to break the page up into a > header, footer, navigation, and content page that can be put > together as simply as a couple of includes(). >
This was and is not meant to be a discussion on how to design websites (-: Right, but why penalize the server every page load for your convenience? I am a big fan of static web pages generated when needed. Have your headers, footers, etc and run make website; make install.
