[ale] web page creation app

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Fri May 30 22:08:49 EDT 2008


On Fri May 30 2008, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> CSS isn't pain -- CSS is bliss, and static web sites *without* CSS are
> agony!  You've built a simple, well-structured static web site with a
> dozen pages, and 20 photos, and suddenly you decide that you want all
> the image captions to be on a blue background, dammit, not a white
> one?  One small change in your CSS stylesheet and you're done for the
> whole site, if you've already cleanly separated your form from your
> content.
>
> Want to move that navigation bar from the left side to the right side
> of every page?  Also, a simple change with CSS.
> 
sounds like I should at least get a handle on CSS..

> 
> A static site simply cannot get compromised in the vast majority of
> ways that a webapp can (and will!) be compromised.  If you don't know
> (and don't want to know) about XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, session
> hijacking, comment spam filtering, etc, and you don't have someone
> looking out for that stuff for you, you might want to stick with
> maintaining static pages.  Especially if you are already comfortable
> with transferring your static site around the 'net.

FTP is your friend:) I am used to having 3 windows open, the FTP to send up 
the new code, the terminal doing the modes, and web page being refreshed to 
try it out.. that's about my limit:)



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