Re: Decreasing Workload

From: Michael Martinez <Michael_at_xenite.org>
Date: Fri 01 Jun 2001 10:23:31 -0500

BRANDI JASMINE <brandi_at_brandijasmine.com> WROTE:

>Frontpage has a really easy tool called "Include Page"
>- it only works within the web/domain though (I
>understand Dreamweaver has it too for all the MS
>-haters out there). I use it extensively. All the ads
>and most of the navigation on my sites are "includes".

Having delayed my trip one more day, I figured I'd
respond again. :) There are those of us who elect not
to use these "do-it-all-for-you" programs. We should
try to agree that not everyone is going to do some
things the same way.

>You can also use JavaScript to do an "include". A
>database is over the heads of most folks here, I'd wager
>(at least it's over my head). You can use the
>JavaScript tutorial here to do an include instead of
>doing syndication as well:

What you're referring to are Javascript template files.
Basically, you create a Javascript in a straight text
file and label it with a ".js" extension. You then
load this into any HTML page you want by linking to it
in your script code. Very simple, very neat, very
cumbersome when you're trying to cut down on server
traffic and keep up with your page views. A hit on a
file is not the same as a page view.

There are tradeoffs to everything, of course.

>http://www.brandijasmine.com/web/writers/syndicate-1.html

>Granted - all this means the site has to be designed with
>this in mind in the first place ... <g>

And that is the problem for me. My domain grew by
accretion. It started out as four separate Web sites
that I brought together. They really had nothing to do
with each other, except that I had created them all.

There are those of us who create, create, create content,
and a few years later we look back at what we have done
and we realize that if we had known then what we know
now, we would have done it all differently.

Michael Martinez
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Received on Fri Jun 01 2001 - 10:23:31 CDT