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Singing the Praises of Templating

I've had this blog for about four years now, and I've made a bunch of changes to the look and feel of the site over this time.

However, about two years ago - when I started getting serious about this - I rebuilt this blog on standards (CSS, valid HTML etc) and tried to make it as modular as possible.

I am still hosted at Blogger for the day-to-day blogger output, but I have a bunch of home-grown apps that I generate on an as-updated basis one of my home Linux boxes. These areas (such as Top Ten Lists and Reviews) are databased at home and pushed to my web site as needed. (PHP/mySql for those who care.)

So, I need templates to keep things sane.

Which I've done.

I just did a major CSS upgrade of this site (added/changed alternate style - another boon), and - once done with the CSS coding - all I had to do was update two template files (one at Blogger, one on my local box) and republish.

And everything is completely up-to-date and in synch.

I love it when I accidently do something correctly...god bless the template gods.