As I work on the new version of my website i've been thinking of some new content management plans to make updating those HTML pages which hardly ever change, but are growing in number, a lot easier and faster.
Currently I have a general "Table Layout and Style" that I am applying to all pages like the home page, and any additional pages.
Basically I want to do something like create subroutines to have chunks of html in which I can wrap around things on the page. I also have a sidebox thingy on the right that doesn't need to be in every page. Basically i'm looking for a modular approach.
I've been looking into some XML things because this seems like the general route most people take. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how I should go about doing this? Thanks!
Wow...found a nice little tutorial and I think I'm going to go the XML/XSL and process on the fly with ASP. Or else I could just have a script that makes html for me and do that every time I make an update to the site. It works really well and does exactly what I want. I'm excited now.
As a bit of an ASP dodo, I've been using Webmerge to update my pages. As long as your site doesn't need to be fully dynamic, it's a useful tool for changing thousands of pages in a matter of minutes.
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Posted - 29 July 2004 : 23:03:39
