Before a month or so I was

yMladenov — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:58:26 +0000

Before a month or so I was searching for a freeware alternative to Dreamweaver.

Tried out few and I realized that there is a good reason when a tool is mainstream.

Take Photoshop for example.

kanch33 wrote:So my question

yMladenov — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:56:15 +0000

kanch33 wrote:

So my question is: is there a simple way to find+replace a certain text block on a batch of files in Windows?

Yeah.

You can use smarty templates. Will take you some time to get used to the syntax of the template system but is well worth it. You can check it out @ smarty.net.

I used to use Dreamweaver templates, but they tend to screw up from time to time, so now I only use it for updating files and coding.

Since I have long lost the hang of PHP (since OOP and MVC kicked in) I always put up a few static pages, or for more than 10-15 pages that must be updated regularly I install Wordpress.
Recently, I read about a superior CMS than Wordpress - Textpattern. I think it is worth checking out. The templates seem to be easier to style and design.

And last - if you are going to stick to Wordpress:

once you style it, do not update;
look into details for templates @ codex.wordpress.org;
get some template like plaintxt.org, the code is much clearer with it.

Have fun.

i think that's a good

chimeara — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:24:16 +0000

i think that's a good alternative programs aside from dream weaver.

If you have a lot of links

errajshukla — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:58:00 +0000

If you have a lot of links on a page and don't have enough of space to fit them all a simple way to add the links is to create a jump menu. Learn how to create jump menus in Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0.

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Perl? You can install Perl

davecoventry — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:37:10 +0000

Perl?

You can install Perl on windows to do your scripting locally on your local machine. Or if you are using a linux server, run your scripts on the server. A MS server might be able to do this too.

Perl regex is not too hard.

Hell, you could probably write something in QBasic which would do the trick on your local machine.

I once had to change 20,000 AutoCAD drawings and replace a particular phrase in them all. I did it with the combination of a batch script, qbasic and a dwg-to-dxf converter. Worked a treat.

If your hosting service

webwiz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:03:21 +0000

If your hosting service allows it, you could use server-side includes (SSI). For an example, see "Including a standard footer" about half-way down this page:
Introduction to Server Side Includes.

Even if you don't do a

Greg K — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:22:09 +0000

Even if you don't do a content management system, use some sort of include to include main "chunks"

If you are stuck with most pages being whatever.html, if you are not wanting to change those, there are ways to have web servers process those as PHP as well so you could do a php include.

-Greg

You can do that in

Megan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:01:37 +0000

You can do that in Dreamaweaver. In the find/replace dialog there's an option to search in a folder or in the entire site. Also look into Dreamweaver templates for maintaining consistent layouts.

If you're running a site larger than 80 pages you should look into Content Management systems. There are many, many available and what you use depends on what your specific needs are. If you elaborate more on your site's needs we could probably point you to something that might work for you.