Re: Website layout method

[Wesley Moxam <wmoxam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dylan Reinhold wrote:

> Wesley Moxam wrote:
>
> > Justin C. Sherrill 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?
> > >
> > >  
> > Since the pages are static, why not write a little script to grab the 
> > cgi output for each page, translate the links from pagename.cgi to 
> > pagename.html then write it to a .html file ....it would take about 
> > two minutes to do and it wouldn't require any additional apache 
> > features to be turned on ...
> >
> > -- Wes
>
> Yes that would work, but we want to keep the left hand menu in it's 
> own. so when an item is added or removed you don't have to edit all 
> the web pages.
> Or are you saying to keep the *.cgi pages edit them and recreate the 
> site after changes are made?
>
> Dylan

Yeah, just regenerate the site when a change is made. I'm assuming that 
you currently have the menu in one file, and the content in another, and 
the script just changes the class of one of the menu items and joins it 
with the content and spits out a page. It would be fairly simple to 
write a single script that would 'publish' static html files.

Or you could just keep cgi pages, and edit them as you suggested ...

-- Wes