8 Feb
2004
8 Feb
'04
12:30 a.m.
While your points are well taken (it is easy to design
BAD pages using tools
such as DreamWeaver), hand writing HTML is not practical for most
professional web development (which I have been doing for well over 10
years).
When my firm sets up a site that has over a hundred pages (just counting the
"static" content) and then client say "change these logos",
"move the tool
bar from the top to the left", or other quite common changes, we would
quickly go broke if we decided top open each of the pages and manually
modify the HTML.
... which is why any server worth its salt offers modularity or template
support for including these kinds of components into a standard site-wide
skeleton. Even plain-jane Apache can accomplish this with SSI, and some
servers like Roxen really go the extra mile in this regard.
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