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Luke
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I wouldn't say you're doing double the work. It should be roughly the same (maybe a little more) amout. You're just organizing it, resulting in much better maintainability.
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If you are concerned about work load one (slightly OT) thing you could (and should) get into is CSS based design and web standards. We had a client say they wanted a whole site's look and feel changed with about 3 hours notice. I basically only had to change the CSS to pull it off, plus or minus a few HTML tweaks. My boss jokingly said "could you make it look a little less good please, I don't want our clients knowing we can pull this stuff off at such short notice".
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I have, for quite a while now, been using css based design and web standards! :wink:
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scottayy wrote:I have, for quite a while now, been using css based design and web standards! :wink:
yay!1 well done. carry on.
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You're not doing double work, unless you have apps that have markup scattered all over the place with the PHP code. In that case, you start by removing all that junk, then move into templates. It is really not that hard.

My typical process is to develop a complete, single HTML template (including all form elements, tables, fieldsets, known div elements, navigation, yadda yadda), then split that into the header and footer sections. Then I use a general template for the body and only create a template if the particular page has content on it that requires its own template. Even then, you are only editing the general body template to make it what it needs to be and nothing else.
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