Re: Site Design Strategy

On 6/2/05, asinning <andrew@learningware.com> wrote: > At the crux of this post is the following question: How do you develop > a very robust, dynamic web-site, but also allow non-technical people to > contribute? There must be an easier way. Use a framework like MVC. Your PHP code would be seperate from your design templates. Smarty is a heavy-weight for templating. I use eval() for most of my own hobby project templating. > 1) Non-technical people in the company need to be able to build pages, > and they should be able to post their pages without bothering me.We > have a tech-support person who will be able to help them, but she has > zero programming knowledge and only a superficial understanding of > HTML. Sounds like a CMS. I use this web based HTML editor when I need to let designers play in my projects: http://www.htmlarea.com/ > The page that gets loaded in depends on the parameters of > query-string. It's very simple, if the query string reads > "?target=products/gsp", then my php will look for a site-relative > document such as "products/gsp.htm" OR "products/gsp/index.hml". Then, > this document will get "included" as the content in my "shell". You might look into Apache's mod_rewrite to help clean those URLs up. Search engines love nice clean URLs if that sort of thing matters to you. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/