web site automation recommedation needed

[julieA]

Do any of you FQ friends know of a site wrapper type program that will help automate headers, footers and links? I bought the book, Website Automation Toolkit, with SiteWrapper in it and was really looking forward to using it. But the website for the book is non-existent and the program has bugs in the perl. I can't fix it since I haven't finished my perl books (and won't have much time with a newborn). I was kind of looking for something easy to install. Do you think I should just try to do it with SSI? I'd love to get your opinions before I work on it.
sincerely,
julieA
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mother of eight, wife of one...

[flowersource]

If you mean like a 'site manager'? I use Dreamweaver to make a 'universal' link change and things like that.

Mike

[Mandi]

I LOVE SSI!![nbsp][nbsp]One easy .txt file to update when the need arises, like changing copyright dates . . . changing links . . . I took over this site (and subsequently moved it to FQ!!) last November, and about threw in the towel with all the date updates that were necessary with the year changeover.[nbsp][nbsp]It was like my own little Y99 bug . . .

HomeSite, my HTML editor, has a great search and replace function for hunting down any links I have embedded beyond what exists on my links.txt

On my site, each page typically has three includes:

1) a site-wide mouseover.txt that contains the javascript mouseover directions each page uses

2) a directory-dependent.txt that has actually calls up the individual graphics that make up my navigation . . . lets me insert my own < title > tag for each page, btw. the javascript stuff (which goes in the head element) and calling up the images.[nbsp][nbsp]This could be site wide, but each of my directories has a slightly different header graphic.

3) A footer.txt that is basically a graphic footer logo, my copyright thing, and a link to my site policies. Final /body and /html tags go here too, which is convenient but always gets flagged when I validate documents, hehe!

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Mandi Stehn
www.cgspouses.net (http://www.cgspouses.net)

Thinking nice labor thoughts for you ... and soon!!
[This message has been edited by Mandi (edited 06-04-99)]

[Rich]

Mike said:I use Dreamweaver to make a 'universal' link change and things like that.Ditto. This should be a part of every web author's toolkit.

Rich