Posted by Gary Hasler on 07/27/06 16:46

Colin McKinnon wrote:

> First, you shouldn't be using the same tools for developing your PHP and
> doing your layouts - although TBH most templating systems don't really make
> it easy for designers to create templates.

OK--"templating systems" ...that sounds promising. I've heard the term but
never really investigated. So far I've been just designing an html page using
sample values in FP, then saving as .php, opening the html in a php-aware text
editor and writing the script for pulling in and handling data.

> I'd definitely recommend Firefox with the web developer toolbar and Venkmann
> for testing the pages and developing javascript.

Yes been using Netscape (same thing?) for testing Javascript; never heard of
Venkmann...will check it out.

> As to publishing..... a better way to manage the files is via a clustering
> system (rsync, AFS ....)

Again new terms to me...will search on them..

> For analyzing the traffic, I tend to use AWStats.

Yes..use it..pretty good.

Thanks.

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