[Gllug] Web Site Creation

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:42:21AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> Avoid XHTML. It gives you nothing over HTML4 other than bloat and
> buzzword compliance (and has a few downsides with current browsers).

Actually we've found that declaring all our pages as XHTML compliant
(with the correct DOCTYPE -- see http://merjis.com -- and yes we know
it doesn't fully validate) helps to get correct rendering on IE.  I
say "helps" because it is only the first step to getting that hideous
mess of a browser to work semi-correctly.

> You need to use some kind of server side processing for this. If all
> you're doing is including a header/footer, then SSI will probably
> suffice:
> 
> 	<!--#include virtual="/header.html" -->

SSI works for simple stuff but you'll hit a wall eventually.  For
example we hit a wall when we wanted to start adding breadcrumbs (to
our old site).  That's why it's better to start off using Template
Toolkit.  In addition, SSI limits you to using Apache: for instance
it's not possible to preview SSI sites using a browser and local
filesystem.

Rich.

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