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Let me start with an analogy. Once you have built your first hundred freesites, you'll probably know what to do next, and have a pretty good idea of how to go about doing it. In the same way, the advice given to you for that hundred and first site would probably be different from the advice for your first or tenth site. The advice is different, because your experience level is different. Your tenth-site advice would be aimed at protecting you from certain subtle problems... but after a hundred sites' worth of experience, we don't need to worry about that. You can evaluate the details for yourself. When it comes to answering your question, the same idea applies. If you know from your own experience whether php3 is best or not for your specific need, and whether dynamic pages are the way to go for what you have in mind... the answer is easy. You make your own decision and run with it. On the other hand, *until* that point, my advice will steer you in a more conservative direction. That is, it will aim you in a direction that should have fewer problems. Does that make sense? Having said all that... I recommend building those 5000 static pages. Why? So you can *look* at those pages, knowing that you're seeing exactly what the surfer sees. If php were generating useless pages - useless for the aol browser, for example - how would you know? That loss could be costly. Also, by using static pages, you pull php out of the picture. That is, you don't need to worry about php interacting with the surfer's browser in a way you didn't expect. And, now that you're building static pages, it doesn't matter if you use php or some other method. Once the job is done, it's done. I should *also* mention that if my browser is having a problem with a web page, it is almost certainly a php-generated page. Message # 4898 148.78.248.10 Sun Aug 5 11:08:15 2001 |