Re: What are your favorite tools for building a static site?

Get the Template Toolkit book. Read the first couple of chapters and then skip ahead to the chapter on building static sites. I rebuilt my Web site in just a few hours using it. Now making global changes on the fly is a snap.

Template Toolkit is ridiculously easy to use, but it's very powerful if you need its advanced features.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

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Re^2: What are your favorite tools for building a static site? by webfiend (Vicar) on Dec 16, 2004 at 19:22 UTC
Thanks for pointing out Template::Toolkit. I had looked at it a while ago, but never got around to really examining it. Now that I've taken a closer look, it will probably do quite nicely for satisfying the little annoyances I'd been experiencing with the other toolkits. WRAPPER is cool, and I can tell that I am going to enjoy FILTER when I get to it. Once I figure out how to build my breadcrumb trails and sitemaps, I'll be a happy geek.	[reply]
Re^3: What are your favorite tools for building a static site? by amw1 (Friar) on Dec 16, 2004 at 21:24 UTC
MACRO and BLOCK are also quite useful. You can use them to build recursive template routines. Don't like the word routine here, but it kinda fits. builds a string containing the number of "A"'s specified. (dumb example, and it may not work, not tested, but you get the idea) I'm ignoring the argument for/against doing this in template code. The HTML::Template guys will put a hit out on me. :) `[% MACRO gen_a_list(number_of_as) BLOCK %] [% a_string = "" %] [% IF number_of_as > 0 %] [% a_string = "A" _ gen_a_list(number_of_as - 1) %] [% END %] [% a_string %] [% END %]` [download] I really enjoy working with TT. I haven't checked out the book yet. Is it decent?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: What are your favorite tools for building a static site? by Ovid (Cardinal) on Dec 16, 2004 at 19:54 UTC
The book has examples of building breadcrumbs and sitemaps on the fly. You'll like it. Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]