[ale] Creating a website (semi-rant)

[Geoffrey Myers]

Ed Cashin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Geoffrey Myers 
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> 
>     David Tomaschik wrote:
> 
>      > First, say you've hand coded a site with 50 pages and a Vice
>     President
>      > comes to you and says "we want a little blue bar with information
>      > about product X at the top of every page."  How do you add this to
>      > every page?  How do you remove it from every page when the CEO
>     decides
>      > it was a terrible idea?
> 
>     You should have standard header and footer includes for such a website.
>      You change it one place, and all pages are updated.
> 
> 
> Would you use the server side include (SSI) feature of the web server 
> for that, or are you thinking of some other technology?

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