[Gllug] Website developement

[David Freeman]

 --- Stig Brautaset <stig at brautaset.org> wrote: > Nix
<nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > On 15 Jul 2001, Stig Brautaset stated:
> > > er... in all fairness, I got the idea from "the linux programming
> > > bible" -- btw a book that have successfully managed to teach me a
> > > whole range of exiting stuff.
> > 
> > If the rest of its ideas are of the same quality as this one, it
> > deserves burning :(
> 
> I take it you are one of these guys that like flash, javascript and
> so
> an as well then. I personally can't think of anything worse on a
> webpage.
> 
> *shudder*

Ditto that. I turned round to a company once and said, remove flash
from your site and I will buy your product, don't I'll go else where.
Flash was removed. Some of the best web sites are in plain ol HTML.
 
> The preprocessor/make thing does exactly what I want, and is
> infinately expandable. That makes it a perfect solution for me. Not
> to
> mention I didn't have to learn yet a different tool for doing this (I
> was going to learn how a makefile worked anyway). Anyway, the book
> merely mentions that it is possible, and shows how it can be done. It
> does not say that it is the one true way to do it.

I am converting my site and it is brilliant. one mistake on every page
is corrected in one line, so simple.

Again, I am ok with generating Makefiles so it means I don't have to
learn a new tool. I like the idea and it works. Especially the __TIME__
and __DATE__ makes things nice.

thanks

D

> Cheers, Stig
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