I don't switch back between dynamic and static pages on our sites. Our main site is .asp, our intranet is .cfm. Having built our intranet site, I created a custom tag that generates the header and footer for each page.
That same custom tag also creates the main navigation links based on the user's domain group membership. I have not seen enough of a hit to warrant using static pages anywhere on our site. The web developer, that works for me, was brought up in a world where processor use should be limited. Therefore, he would create PHP scripts that would generate hundreds of static pages every so often. It was difficult to convince him that a server running at around 5% processor usage, the majority of the time, had plenty of horsepower to run all of our dynamic pages. M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Maintaing Static and Dynamic Files (was Re: Updated Broadband Stats) Good feedback Mark. Having been one that's built all CFM-based sites (yes every page uses CF), I've often wondered about how others approach the header/footer situation where these files not only need to be included to provide, say, a consistent navigation but also contain dynamic info. An example might be a nav bar that changes based on the user that's logged in. The benefits of having IIS serve up pages is without question but there's also the maintenance overhead of having to manage headers, footers and layout files across dynamic and static pages. Sure, you can use SSIs in HTML but now you've double the maintenance work of ensuring layouts are consistent between dynamic and static pages. It'd be really interesting to hear how everyone handles this. Rey... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:281582 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
