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Re: substitute for dreamweaver's template/link tracking

Matt Price wrote:

Hi,

So I have a couple of small websites I'm trying to move over to
linux.  Up to now I've managed them with dreamweaver, which has two
great features:

-- templates that you can update, i.e. you can build a site around one
   set of templates, with one 'look', and then change all your
   documents at once with a simple 'update' command.


Template Toolkit (www.template-toolkit.org) with ttree.


-- bits of code called 'library items' that are portable from place to place, whose links you
   don't have to update.  This is managed, I guess, with some kind of
   database of all the file names and links in the site, so that yyou
   can iunsert these snippets (usually navigation bars and the like)
   into pages, and dreamweaver will set the links to the appropriate
   file.
So it keeps track of where you move all your files, and updates the links accordingly? This would be difficult to do in TT, since typically you're just moving files around in the Linux filesystem, using cp, mv, etc., so TT can't keep track. Shouldn't be too hard to write your own scripts to do this sort of thing, though.
TT can be a hard slog to someone used to a GUI and Dreamweaver, but it works like a dream once you have it set up.
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