Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread george
ray wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 13:09, David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: My 'objection' to PHP in this instance is not that it's a programming language (most of these HTML preprocessors are programming languages of a sort) but that (afaik) PHP 'needlessly' impedes cacheability of pages t

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread ray
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 13:09, David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: > My 'objection' to PHP in this instance is not that it's a programming > language (most of these HTML preprocessors are programming languages of > a sort) but that (afaik) PHP 'needlessly' impedes cacheability of pages > that aren

RE: [Scottish] there's HTML then there's what FP produces

2002-12-03 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
-Original Message- From: Robert(Rob) M. Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software? You don't have to use FrontPage "Editor". Use any editor you like. But it is a good editor. Don't get me wrong, I do like FP to a certain extent. It keeps

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Aidan Skinner
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:38, Robert(Rob) M. Schneider wrote: > I hear assertions about how the editor produced bloated non-standard HTML. > but frankly I have no real evidence. I've read HTML books, but never a book > on standards-based HTML. I've not pursued it. I find that our sites work

RE: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Elwell, AD (Andrew)
> > Most of the pages on my site will be static, so I'm looking > for a tool > > that I use offline on my local machine to make each page as and when > > needed, and then upload changes to the server, rather than something > > which runs (and stores all my data) server-side. Not tried it yet (I

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Robert(Rob) M. Schneider
David, You don't have to use FrontPage "Editor". Use any editor you like. But it is a good editor. I've tried some of the Linux equivalents, e.g. Mozilla's Compose, and FP is more reliable and has better functionality. Remember to separate "FrontPage the editor", from "Front Page the web sit

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Aidan Skinner
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:53, David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: > I've been doing a bit of searching around of late to see if there are > useful Linux-based tools that I could use in order to help writing the > site, using 'templates' (ie, common themes for pages, including basic > layout, navi

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Robert(Rob) M. Schneider
Well, like I said ... if one wants to program, then there are many programming languages (perl, php, python, etc.) and libraries. Feel free. Go for it. But if one doesn't want to rely on programming and instead do web site authoring/management and focus on content--especially when content doe

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Graeme Mathieson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:30:33AM +, Robert(Rob) M. Schneider wrote: > > There are quite a few tools in Linux dealing with editing HTML and XML pages, > but nothing I've found for building/managing web "sites". WML[1]. Really. It's not the easiest thing to get your head around and build u

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Mike Quin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:53:13PM + or thereabouts, David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: > Most of the pages on my site will be static, so I'm looking for a tool > that I use offline on my local machine to make each page as and when > needed, and then upload changes to the server, rather tha

Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?

2002-12-03 Thread Colin McKinnon
David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: I've been doing a bit of searching around of late to see if there are useful Linux-based tools that I could use in order to help writing the site, using 'templates' (ie, common themes for pages, including basic layout, navigation bars, etc, such that I can ch