Posted by Justin.Voelker on 04/02/07 16:30

On Apr 2, 1:17 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Justin.Voelker wrote:
> > Hello Everyone:
>
> > I am in search of an easier way to develop pages. My most current
> > website,www.Base2WebDesign.com, has the exact same layout throughout
> > the entire site. Right now I use a function called "page_top()" and
> > page_bottom()" that , when called, display the tops and bottoms of
> > pages. All I have to do on the actual index.php page is call those two
> > functions and then write the main content on that page. This seems
> > stupid but it seems to work. I would like to use templates but I
> > don't know much about them and I have yet to find anything that just
> > screams simplicity to me and ease of use. If anyone could point me in
> > the right direct for developing pages that have a consistent layout
> > with dynamic content on the "main section" of the page, I would be
> > forever grateful. Again, I would like to use templates because from
> > what I have seen they look like they are what I need. Can anyone
> > direct me toward and very simple, straight-forward, easy-to-use
> > template system (if this is what I indeed would need) that could speed
> > up the rendering of the pages without hitting the server on each page
> > load for the same page layout? Also, my current way of building the
> > page may be to fault but might there be a solution to the pages
> > "blinking" when you switch from one pages to the next for the first
> > time. When you return to that same page there is no blink. Thank you
> > so much to anyone and everyone that can solve any of the problems I
> > have listed above!
>
> Even a template will have to hit the server for every page load, even if
> it is the same layout. The only way you could stop that is to save the
> page outputs as html files and just load the static pages.
>
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
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Jerry:

Do you know of any nice, simple, light-weight php template systems
(unline smarty and it's massive amount of files). Thanks!

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