Posted by dorayme on 06/07/05 04:17

> From: Oli Filth <catch@olifilth.co.uk>
>
>... sheer insanity not to use a centralised system
> for managing and maintaining the structure of your pages. Lets say it
> takes 15 seconds to open each HTML file in an editor, delete the old
> navigation section, paste in the new version, save it and close. 1500 *
> 15 = 22500 seconds = 6.25 hours (non-stop)!!! And that's *every* time
> you want to change something.
>
> I would say that it is physically impossible for one person to manage
> 1500 pages and keep them up to date and consistent, unless you some sort
> of automated/dynamic system.
>
All this and other advice to OP sounds very solid. May I just add that I am
yet to graduate to includes but this has encouraged me to look into it. So
far, my automatic system has been grep pattern changes over "all the files"
in some folder. One drawback of this is in complicated changes, meaning some
effort to get the patterns right (there being many ways to go wrong). But it
is fun and satisfying to get it right. Do one thing right and thousands of
things are changed right... I'd miss this.

I assume that includes are *as* rock-solid as the full html on all servers?

dorayme

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