[thelist] can someone build a 100-page website with only HTML/CSS skill?

[Olivier Percebois-Garve]

a version control system ?

in the case of a non-skilled designer ?

I just dont dont see what makes conf files especially scalable. They
constraint to more hand work.


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Hassan Schroeder <
hassan.schroeder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Olivier Percebois-Garve
> <percebois at gmail.com> wrote:
> > why a conf file ? just read the filesystem and build the nav out of that.
>
> Another non-scaling idea.
>
> Aside from the fact that you don't always (or even usually) want menu
> items in simplistic alphabetic order, what happens when you need to
> make significant changes to the nav (e.g. split categories)?
>
> Moving directories and files around is much less convenient than
> editing a config file, especially if you're using a version control system.
>
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