If the HTML is fairly standardized (I see that the datestamp is both in the metatags and in the body), it's even easier to add or change the presentation of datestamps, just a text operation which I'd take over a fancy CMS any day of the week. Static pages can be great for performance, reliability, ease of backup, standards validation, subcontracting for translation, etc. Massive changes are simplified since they can be done on nonlive and distributed servers and previewed offline with any browser or even errorchecked automatically. Sed, awk, perl, python are all adapted to that task. I used a CMS a few years ago which was quite limited (only one media file per record) and as a kludge we generated static HTML popups with multiple media choices as the "media file". The intranet IP addresses were hardcoded in the HTML so we were worried when server change time came, but we updated 16,000 static pages in under an hour with sed. As I recall, before running the script we were concerned about intense disk activity and there was a suggestion to do the edits in a RAMdisk, in which case only a few minutes would have been necessary.
It's true that a light grey background with the year might be a good idea for old content, but myself I'd sooner stick with live text, just present it a tad larger on top and with the year on the bottom of the page. Sean. On Jan 7, 2008 4:05 PM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Greaves wrote: > > I think someone missed the point here... > > > > Or am I wrong? > > If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely > more than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them > all would be difficult? If the site was backed by some kind of > new-fangled CMS then it would be an extremely sensible suggestion. :-) > > > S > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
