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

[Oscar Renalias]

I don't like tools like dreamweaver, I've tried before and they didn't really
make my life any easier! 

Anyway, you couldn't use dreamweaver if the whole template was in one page
either. Keep in mind that Smarty templates do not pass the "xml test" because
they do not use xml tags but smarty's own {...} and {/...} so loading a smarty
template in dreamweaver will result in... I don't know :)

There are better template engines our there better suited for visual html
editors such as http://phptal.sourceforge.net/ but unfortunately, smarty is not
one of them. 

Will this hinder the development of new templates for plog? Perhaps, but copying
the same header and footer code in 6,7 or 8 different templates is not a
solution either. A alid solution (and it has already been suggested in the past
but I never saw any efforts towares achieving this goal) would be to create a
clean and simple basic template, totally driven by css. The template should be
as easy as

<div id="top">
 ...
</div>
<div id="column1">
 ...
</div>
<div id="contents">
 ...
</div>
<div id="column2">
 ...
</div>
<div id="footer">
 ...
</div>

A template like this would allow people to concentrate on the css code itself
instead of messing around with the markup/smarty code. Perhaps that's a better
solution?

Oscar

Mensaje citado por su baochen <subaochen at 126.com>:

> 
> ÔÚ2004Äê11ÔÂ16ÈÕµÄ02:04£¬Francesc PlaдµÀ£º
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks, I think this is the point.
> 
> BTW, dreamweaver produce clean html code and suport css well, for XHTML
> 1.0 Strict, I don't know either.
> 
> > 
> > Francesc.
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