Posted by Joe (GKF) on 11/23/06 01:58

In article <doraymeRidThis-F59F33.14361722112006@news-
vip.optusnet.com.au>, doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au says...
> In article <MPG.1fce41c0507c1345989739@news.aardvark.net.au>,
> Joe (GKF) <joedinmore@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > In article <doraymeRidThis-9E1BE8.07560322112006@news-
> > vip.optusnet.com.au>, doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au says...
> > >
> > > Every time includes are discussed, someone says how you don't
> > > have to edit lots and lots of files on your own machine.
> > ...
> > It's true!
> >
>
> Yes, I favour saying true things. Generally.
>
**way up there** (see below)
> The context was there is often an implication that this is always
> a laborious thing to do. This is not true. The other thing no one
> utters in the same breath is that you can't actually see your
> pages as designed by simply dragging the files to a browser.

> Unless you do other at first complicated things like run a little
> server, a preprocessor, keep duplicate full hard coded html pages
> etc etc. It is never mentioned in the same breath. And yes, there
> is often space to mention it. But it does not suit the breathless
> spruiking of includes.
>
It's not complicated after the first week. I d/led XAMPP (which I see
you can get for OS X) and went from there.
I don't keep duplicate full hard coded html pages (never thought of it
- now I'll probably worry about it). Thanks for that.

<some stuff snipped because I don't want to be Number One on the "Least
amount of original content" list twice in a row, but don't think I
didn't enjoy reading it, because I did>

>

>
> I don't believe there is any significant saving in time over 4 or
> 5 screens. Not when the million hours I have taken to read every
> goddam tute on the internet on these matters is taken into
> account!

Tell me about it. <rhetorical>Do you think the PHP manual is
*deliberately* hard to get your head around?</rhetorical> I finally got
a handle on the whole thing via a tutorial at (of all places) a porn
webmaster site at ummm http://www.adultnetsurprise.com/ - but I can't
even find the tutoral there any more. Pity.
>
> Your general site has far more than 5 screens (and very nice ones
> too I might add), you just are all set up and of course it is
> easier for you.
>
Yes. It's easy to forget the hard work that you have to do to get
started. Worth it though.
>
- and I'm a silly bugger. For some reason (probably related to soaking
in the bath too long) I decided that when you clearly and repeatedly
said "footers", you must have meant "navigation menus".
If all you want to do is put a footer on every page, cut and paste is a
good thing unless and until you have done all the stuff you talked about
*way up there*.


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