Thanks, I am testing your advice
What is your advice and sample for a template to make all the rest of the
pages from? This is a brand new site.
1. A template like everything in a table set to percentage% ?
2. The same footer on every page?
3. A menu on the left side? Or the top? Or a mixture of both menus?
Which web site sounds the best? For your advice you get a free jar of hot
Louisiana Tabasco pepper jelly.
I'm actually working out the same issues for my new site. I've done some
client-specific ASP apps, but never an organized public web-site like the
one I am doing now. I am using the table template with included content
method of contructing my pages.
For example, the following search page:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/search.htm
Is the top_bott page template:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/tmpl/top_bott.htm
With the search topic page as included content...
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/search_topic.htm
The search topic page is the topic page template:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/tmpl/topic.htm
with the search text page as included content...
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/admin/search_text.htm
Here is the page that will eventually be the index:
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/topmain.htm
As you can see, it is the top_bott template page with the main page template
as included content...
http://home.san.rr.com/vagabondia/tmpl/main.htm
As you can see, I have a long way to go. I'm also trying to decide whether
or not this is a good way of doing things, but it is a much better way than
my last foray into a web-site.
It also gives me a certain degree of flexibility. For example, I could
decide that I want the search_text page inside one of those blank white
cells on the main page. I could add a navigation bar on the left, right, or
bottom of the main page and design other pages (such as a links or
contribute page) that could be included content in any of those areas.
Just some ideas that may or may not be very good.
Good Luck,
carl
