Re: Creating individual .pub files

Now I understand. I actually addressed the issue of relative vs. absolute
links in the looooong thread and discussion we had before (which I doubt you
read...way too long and wordy). I hope he realizes that the primary
challenge he faces is the navigation system. It needs to be such that adding
a page does not require going back and changing 200 plus pages. Also he does
use custom file names instead of index.htm already, so that shouldn't be a
big change.

I am sure you are busy, but if you or anyone else have any ideas of how best
to organize his site, it is at http://www.siyayasa.com/.

About the only argument I can think of for breaking it up to one page per
Pub file is that if he eventually decided to switch to a server side
database, having the individual pages could make the conversion easier.

A bit off topic, but do you know anyway to import a textual navbar, and
specifically one that looks like the typical bottom navbar, into a page? I
currently import a javascript menu to each page that only requires changing
the javascript in one folder on my host, and the change is reflected in each
page. I can tell Christian how to do that, but I haven't figured out how to
import a textual navbar at the bottom of each page. And if anybody else has
an idea, I would appreciate it.

DavidF

"Mike Koewler" <wordwiz@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David,

Unless Christian is anal retentive like me, he has used relative links, so
copying and pasting text or object with links will mean they are broke. He
will also have to be very careful renaming pages so he doesn't end up with
a couple dozen index.htm pages.

I faced this problem at the end of 2006. For week after week, I kept
adding pages of news, links to other groups, etc. Suddenly my file was out
of control with over 300 pages. So I copied just the main pages to a new
file and used absolute links instead of relative ones. I then deleted all
of those pages and uploaded the file to /2006. Then I created a /2007
folder and file and kept the copied pages as my main file. It gets updated
to my root directory, which has links to the 2006 and now 2007 archives.

Even now, once a file gets to about 60 pages, I start a new one with only
the skeleton pages and rename it something like 2008April.wpp. I can do
incremental updates without deleting files so that isn't a problem.

I do something similar with a site I do for my church. Since I add at
least 12 pages a month, it was becoming way too large also. Now stuff goes
into a 2008 folder or a special events folder. Yeah, I have more native
files, but they stay relatively small in size. Also, and I don't know if
Pub allows this or not, I can insert an "offsite" page and have it
automatically included in the Nav Bar

Mike

DavidF wrote:
Mike,

Thanks for jumping in here. Would you please elaborate on why you say it
would be a disaster? Also, can you suggest a "best" way for Christiaan to
break his site up and organize it. Single pages/single pub files seems
overkill to me too, but I am curious about why you said it. Thanks.

DavidF

"Mike Koewler" <wordwiz@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Christiaan wrote:

I am going to make each page an individual .pub file.

You are looking at a disaster waiting to happen if you do this.

Mike



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