What about stripping out all the 'nuances' and just reducing it to
just the text where you then control the display and using your
templates and css?
Bastien
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On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Kolbo <kolb0057@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I've been using PHP and Smarty for several years now and I am happy
with this "division" of data from presentation. With this
philosophy in mind, i am a bit perplexed as to how to handle the
text on my sites. That is, the text is data, so i am motivated to
store the text in a database, files, or the like, but then text is
loaded with little markup nuances (random italics/weight/colors,
etc...) that make template design rather ugly. This motivates me to
put markup (maybe even my own brand of markup) around the text, and
to store this markup-text combination in a database. But I don't
like this either, because a lot of the people writing the content/
text know word/writer not markup. So i am motivated to have them
save their text as .html, and I parse this file and modify
accordingly. However, i don't like this either as not all word/
writer styles are 1-to-1 with CSS. Without any options I am back to
thinking "hard code" the text with markup in included templates, but
it hurts just thinking of updating/modifying.
I have looked (briefly) at Web Content Management Systems, but this
seems like overkill really, maybe i'm ignorant.
What would the community suggest? The text can take on many forms,
introduction text, about text, product information, articles,
blurbs, (some changes daily, some doesn't) etc...where does all this
text live in 'properly' designed site.
Thanks in advance,
dK
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