On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:08:14 +0100,
As I may be in the same sort'v position shortly, can I pick your brains? - what did you
find yourself doing mainly, and/or in what order? (VERY broad question, and I appreciate
that every situation is different, but anything you can suggest would be welcome.)
TIA.
Doh. where does one start. - only now am I able to start automating
the site. For one year, I was not allowed to change anything other
than content - none of which was databased.
Constantly having to re-write the home page/index/sitemap/fix broken
links because all pages were hard coded with the same menu, all pages
had the same roll over events / images.
The site was written very precisely so that every page looked the same
- 26 a-z buttons - 26 a-z hover buttons 26 a-z button pressed buttons.
Not to mention the active menu /hover/pressed buttons.
Took me a year just to get most of the pages 'A' [SENDA / DDA]
complient.
AND, global replace was not an option...
The one area I am glad about is the ability to use include files and a
database of information that can be extracted.
Watch out for dynamic pages that ought to be dynamic static pages to
help withserver strain - does the data change often enough to need to
be dynamic or can it wait for an hour or 12 - use copy a page to
generate static copies of the dynamic pages and update using cron when
appropriate.
I am still a beginner at this - check the library, post explicit
questions AND - HAVE FUN!!!, Learn from your mistakes - NO 1, learn
how to include base files.
