Suren wrote: > Hello, > > I am a newbie to python and web development. I am part of a fairly > simple project and we are trying to identify an efficient way to design > our html pages. The technologies at our disposal are javascript, html > and python for now.
Python with ? CGI ? FastCGI ? mod_python ? Other ? > Our pages bear a very standard look. Here is what it looks like. > (snip) > l1 through l5 are links that basically target the content page and fill > in. Each page via that link has a python reference to go gather > appropriate data for the content page. We are using frames to do the > banner.html, menu.html (the links page) and the content page. You shouldn't - unless this is an internal web-based application, not a public site. Since your dynamically generating the pages, there's no gain using frames - but there are huge drawbacks, for the programmers as well as for the visitors. > For the content page, how can we decorate it on top with the back/front > buttons and logout buttons and botton with a copyright in every page. > It seems error prone as well as bad design to scatter this logic in > each content page. Is there a template logic like Sitemesh or Tiles > concept that can decorate a desired page just before show time? There are lot of web templating engines in Python, and most of them provide some way to either "extend" an existing template (to fill-in page-specific stuffs) or to do server-side-includes-like inclusion of common parts. Google for Genshi, Jinja, SimpleTAL, Mighty, Cheetah... > Any other tips to help life easier are appreciated. Have you considered using one of the existing python web development libraries/frameworks? Like Pylons, Turbogears, Django, Spyce, Karigell, etc, etc, etc, etc... My 2 cents... -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list