You feel so strongly about this "need to break the homepage into small templates" that you bolded it... I don't understand why you need to do that. Perhaps you are going about it backwards?

If I have to do a complicated page, I do a mock up (I have to plug TopStyle Pro here... it's a great editor for XHTML if you're a windows user....) that looks exactly like I want the page to look when it is dynamically generated.

Then.... well, my work is just about done. I replace the mock up data with TMPL_VAR and TMPL_LOOPs and then write some perl that does all the right stuff to populate those variables.

I don't have to split my XHTML pages into tiny bits, so I don't understand why you would have to be splitting your templates into tiny bits!?


Apsyrtes