Re: Website layout method

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Something that I thought of while talking with Dylan Reinhold:  The
> :DragonFly site is somewhat overengineered at this point.  The pages are
> :created dynamically, but the only direct benefit now is highlighting the
> :current page.  
> :
> :Eventually  there will be more pages than can be displayed in a side menu,
> :so unless there's an upcoming need for program output on every page, it may
> :be better to use apache server side includes instead and stick to CGI when
> :the page demands it.  Opinions?  Matt, would you be willing to turn on
> :server side includes?
>
>     Server side includes aren't really powerful enough, nor do I really
>     want to add complexity to our pages.  The CGI overhead is basically
>     nil and it gives us the ability to chang the framing without having to 
>     mess with the pages.  If we needed to, we could easily implement additional
>     $variable based dynamic content.

	At the moment, I do not have much time, but I have been working
	on a PHP FastTemplate type system for the DragonFly websites. In
	my Freelance Web Designing years, it has proved to be extremely
	useful in separating logic from presentation.

	The system I describe will help us in coordinating content in a
	very appropriate way, i.e. we can shove whatever we want and
	make the layout still look consistent; automatic sitemap
	generation, and the rest of other blah blah blah...

	But this will take some time as I am currently busy setting up a
	test documentation framework for DragonFly.

	Over and out,

		-- Hiten Pandya (hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)