in reply to Re^2: Advice Choosing a Templating System
in thread Advice Choosing a Templating System

True. Although in my (limited) experience, I've found that generally, teaching the people who do design anything to do with languages, mini, or not, seems to be a crap shoot. Either they can grasp the concept, or they can't.

If they can, mason, or template toolkit, or any other comes easy enough. They can include a header/footer, call another block of code in a loop, without having to be 'programmers', after a simple example or two.

If they cannot, it doesn't seem to matter if the template is as simple as:
<title>%%title%%</title>
they can't seem to understand that we'll put the proper value there.

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Re^4: Advice Choosing a Templating System
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 02, 2005 at 07:32 UTC

    If that's the case, then maybe Petal is the templating system to use - the templating information is secretly kept in attributes, so the designers can move around the tags to their liking, and fill it with sample data as much as they want. This might give them a more concrete grip on things.