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to server database-driven web site content (web page coding techniques) by Carlton Brown - Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business - Duke University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. You must attribute any applications of the techniques and/or methods that appear on your web site with the following comment in the source code of the page(s):
<! - - This code generated using ssHTML - Carlton Brown - Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business - Duke University under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ - ->

Semi-Static Web Pages

building and deploying a desktop alternative to server databasedriven web site content

Carlton Brown Ford Library The Fuqua School of Business Duke University September 24, 2002 / Revised April 2008 carlton.brown@duke.edu

Abstract
Solo librarians, or those without the budget, time, or support needed to implement a true database-driven web solution like Coldfusion, PHP, or ASP, can create large blocks of easily updateable, "semi-static" HTML for their web sites using standard MS Office applications. This talk will focus on the reasons for using ssHTML, and guide the developer through the process of building and deploying semi-static web pages.

Building a Page
Static HTML
Server-side includes Semi static HTML

Building a Page
Static HTML
- used for stable elements of a page

Building a Page
Server-side includes
- used for recurring/omnipresent elements within a site. - maximizes link editing efficiency <!--#include virtual=sidenav.htm -- > <!--#include virtual=banner.htm -- > <!--#include virtual=navtabs.htm -- >

The ssHTML

Define a base table

Create and run a maketable query

Select your sub-table, and begin the merge

Create an HTML shell

Merge and edit the code

The merged code

Pasted!

Your use of any of the content of this document: Semi-Static Web Pages: building and deploying a desktop alternative to server database-driven web site content (web page coding techniques) by Carlton Brown - Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business - Duke University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. You must attribute any applications of the techniques and/or methods that appear on your web site with the following comment in the source code of the page(s):
<! - - This code generated using ssHTML - Carlton Brown - Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business - Duke University under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ - ->