On 27 April 2011 11:24, Gordon Sim <g...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/27/2011 10:08 AM, Robbie Gemmell wrote: > >> You currently have to edit all the web page files in two places, with the >> source files being the core content and the generation step adding all the >> headers, footer, menu information to produce the final page which is >> published to /site so that the webserver pulls down the changes and >> publishes them. >> > > Ok, that explains it. Apologies again for failing to adhere to correct > process! I have checked in a change that applies my change directly to the > source to re-synchronise. > > > Since we don't actually have anything too complicated and we are just >> storing the pages as html source anyway rather than some base format that >> gets converted, ideally I would prefer to just be able to edit the live >> site >> files for *everything* and do away with the generation step entirely. To >> do >> that would probably require a bit of re engineering though to make things >> more maintainable though. I dont believe we have access to PHP on the main >> ASF webserver but it does have Server Side Includes enabled which could >> also >> be used to allow including the menus, header, footer etc from a central >> copy >> rather than requiring per-page maintenance. The downside with any >> improvements along this line though is that you then probably need to test >> your updates using an webserver rather than just viewing the files >> locally. >> > > What about just using frame elements? Is that considered bad form these > days? > > Frames are in general considered evil by most people yes, to the extent that I believe only iframes have survived the cut in HTML5.
