I have been using WebMacro for the last few months. It's great, we
have done exactly this--changed the whole front end look on all of
our pages, and several times to boot.
Now that our graphics designers have the ability to change everything around
whenever they want, without getting a programmer to help them, I've noticed
that's exactly what they like doing--changing everything.
WebMacro is a template engine that allows you to specify the HTML in a
simple script language. The designers mostly get the script right, but in
the few cases where they don't they just give me HTML and I stick the script
tags in for them--mostly they manage it on their own. Even this is way
easier than not having a template.
As time goes by they need less and less help from me as well, as they get
the hang of the WebMacro script.
I really believe that templates are the right way to go. There are a few
engines besides the one I chose, I'm sure their authors will all post a
list. WebMacro is at www.webmacro.org.
Steve
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> > That is why we use the Dash model to do some things at Clear Ink.
>Designers
> > come in and give us mockups (valid html) for the site based on a
>functional
> > specification document that has been reviewed by both the engineers and
>the
> > designers. Once the engineers have the design of the site in hand, they
>then
> > code up the html using ECS and make the web application functional
>following
> > the Dash model. This has worked extremely well for us for almost 2 years
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>So what happens 6 months down the track when the 'designers' want a new
>look? Presumably you have to recode/recompile? With templates you can just
>edit the html. I guess in the future more of this will be handled by CSS,
>but you can't rely on that for the moment.
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