Hi all, first post to this forum.
For the last few years I've been designing sites in Adobe GoLive (for better or worse). I've recently taken the plunge and ditched the WYSIWYG editors in favour of standards-based hand-coding, for which I'm using Panic's new text editor for the Mac, 'Coda' (which I find excellent by the way).
Thing is, whilst I don't miss all the palettes, toolbars and drop down menus/wizards that GoLive provided, I do miss the ability to create templates for my pages, ie. a master page which, when amended, will update all the pages based upon it. I realise that such a mechanism is a part of the application itself, not an inherent part of HTML, and that, as such, each app will handle it differently. But I wondered if anybody had a solution that would provide a similar functionality within a simple text-editing workflow. Coda provides many great tools for hand-crafting HTML (and CSS, Javascript, etc) but it does not go as far as template management.
Basically I'm looking for a way to incorporate an external 'snippet' of HTML into other pages in a dynamic way such that updating the snippet will update the page.
I'm not hopeful of finding a solution (at least not one that doesn't involve a ton of scripting which is not what I'm after because I don't want the final pages to hold a lot of script that is only used during development). But I thought I'd ask.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance;
Rick