On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:00:35PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > 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)?
You might want to check out ewok (http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/ewok), which is a small-medium CMS built on top of Embperl. One of my goals with ewok was that it would be easy to publish these kind of static html sites - you can run ewok on a real box somewhere (e.g. your linux box at home), and then publish the whole site as static html that you upload to your cheap and nasty hosting provider, no bells or whistles required. It requires apache 1, mod_perl, Embperl, and a couple of other perl modules - no database required. Like most others, it's got a bit of a learning curve to get it humming just the way you want. Cheers, Gavin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
