Insight: You don’t really know if your templates…

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Realized by Ryan on January 6 2010:

You don’t really know if your templates and CSS are well factored until you try to make changes.

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7 comments so far

Stan Hansen 06 Jan 10

How about “Always build a navigation bar in CSS /PHP unless you enjoy copying and pasting it 75 times on 75 different web pages.”

No Way Jose 07 Jan 10

Stan – False.

You could build a navigation with 10 nested tables but include it on multiple pages with SSI .

Garrett Winder 07 Jan 10

{embed=”embeds/nav”} Go Expression Engine, go.

Mitch 07 Jan 10

Who cares about how you do it. That’s just techniques.

No matter how you devide it up into templates and scripts, if the site changes, you have to make those changes. How easy is that process?? That is the question.

I build all my sites in an ancient version of GoLive Cyberstudio, and then update my pages and templates individually from memory; this adds a certain level of randomness and unpredictability that demonstrates by ability to really think outside the box. Between those skills and my massive animated GIF collection, I’m ready to tackle any challenge!