Re: Decreasing Workload

From: Michael Martinez <Michael_at_xenite.org>
Date: Wed 23 May 2001 11:27:22 -0500

MATT MICKIEWICZ <matt_at_sitepoint.com> WROTE:

>I got tired of trying to explain to eager salespeople
>that a $5 CPM on popup ads won't even begin to compensate
>us for the cost of revising 10s of thousands of pages
>of content.

TO WHICH MICHAEL MARTINEZ <Michael_at_xenite.org> REPLIED:

>There's no reason why it should take you a lot of time
>to revise tens of thousands of pages. You can use
>Server Side Includes, a search & replace utility, or
>even a simple database written in PHP & mySQL to
>make site-wide changes.

Server side includes are nice, but the code is not
already in place, so I would have to revise tens of
thousands of pages of content to use them. And since
the content is not uniformly laid out, and cannot be
uniformly laid out, search-and-replace routines don't
work consistently. Believe me, I use them all the time.

As for simple databases, you don't understand what you
are proposing. I have tens of thousands of HTML pages.
They are there NOW. You don't just convert that kind
of content to "a simple database".

Michael Martinez
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