On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 22:16:51 +0100 Richard George wrote:
On Sunday 05 August 2001 9:41 pm, David wrote:
OK, so my web of mail seams to have been distorted into a holy war
before
I got a good answer.
So this still leaves me with how can I seperate content from formatting such as to give an elegant and simple solution which doesn't need a week to code, two high level languages, a relation database and an
excerise in
normalisation.
You have my answer, reasons, and example. I apologise if it wasn't "good". If you want any more info, let me know - I'm no expert, but I know what works for me.
yes you suggested I use a language which mixes content with formatting, requires two new services be installed on the server and something which took 7 months to code, I want something I can knock up in an evening and then just add content to easily. I also want something which can have the format changed easily perhaps with the editing of one file.
Yes, the example took 7 months to code, uses DBs, CSS and js as well as PHP, but these are all optional. In between all that, it lets me modify the site from a small number of files - which I think pretty much serves your purpose.
Rereading your initial mail, it suggests that you want to reformat prior to upload; I can't say I have any brilliant suggestions on how to do that, as I think the more normal method would be server-side modification or CSS.
Yup, I can't guarentee that I will have PHP and mysql on every server I ever use so it gives me compatablity issues, I want simple HTML, no more no less with CSS and a nice easy way to add to it.
Thanks
D
Richard
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On Sunday 05 August 2001 10:27 pm, David Freeman wrote:
yes you suggested I use a language which mixes content with formatting, requires two new services be installed on the server and something which took 7 months to code, I want something I can knock up in an evening and then just add content to easily. I also want something which can have the format changed easily perhaps with the editing of one file.
Obviously I'm wasting my time trying to help you here, and I can only assume that this is why those more familiar with your posting here have not even attempted to do so. I'm not going to repeat the reasons why what you have written above is innacurate, as it's really of no interest to me if you write your pages in C, M4, perl, Fortran or Cobol. I shall just wish you good luck and consider this conversation closed.
Richard
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