[pLog-general] why split HTML files into pieces?

[Francesc Pla]

Hi,

Personally I never use tools such as Dreamweaver. If you code your templates 
by hand, as Nick and Oscar said, it's better to split them in smaller pieces 
resulting in reusable headers, menus, ... it definitely makes easier to reuse 
and maintain the code.

Of course if you use some visual design tool it makes harder to edit templates 
made by hand. It's been a while since last time I used a visual editing tool, 
but if they haven't changed, I remember they produce bloated code full of 
unusable contents. I also don't know if they finally have a decent support 
for XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS. That were the main reasons that made me start 
coding by hand.

Anyway you can make your templates with the tool you find more useful and 
adequate for your needs, but you have to understand that we can't force 
everyone to use a tool as standard application to make templates for our 
project.

Francesc.