Sluggers,
following on from the thread on building and maintaining a school web site, I'd like to ask the collective wisdom for input on web site content development and management.
Last time I was involved in this stuff web sites used frames, these seemed to have fallen from favour and most sites appear to be using cascading style sheets to achieve a header, navigation and main page look and feel. These sites appear to be made up of distinct html pages which have common areas. Thus a bookmark of a particular page works properly unlike with frames.
However, what sort of techniques are being used to put these pages together? I played around and managed to successfully create such a site by "hand" but obviously unless the process of merging the main content of the page with the header and the navigate <div> areas was automated this would become painful and lead to typo's etc.
So are most sites generating such pages dynamically at http get time, or are there software packages available to put such content together (Linux based of course)?
E.G The content produced by a user creating pages in say Mozilla Composer needs quite a bit of cropping and cleaning to be placed as the content in a CSS sheet site (like say fedora.redhat.com) Obviously they aren't doing it like this. Are there wysiwyg composers for html that understand they need to produce just the content, are they style sheet "aware", care to recommend any?
Also looking at server side content development and management tools. Have had a preliminary look at Zope, which seems to have some impressive claims. Basically looking for a tool that will allow data from an RDBMS (probably postgres) to be displayed and undated via web pages, preferably without having to write lots of cgi and matching .html forms pages. Again any recommendations, tools that I should look at.
TIA's
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I understand the benefits of css from an style/layout point of view, however my question relates to maintaining the html pages that make up such a site (fedora.redhat.com) for example.
Each page is a distinct
What methods are most sites using to deliver such content. Is the content static
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