I ahve a question that perhaps has a simple answer. I am wodering about creating a new style or design for our links directory and having the oportunity to test it and check it before it goes LIVE. In other words, lets say we have a LSQl 2.10 site running, and in a year, we want to change the style. It could be a bit cumbersome to simply edit the templates and not see how the information flows onto the pages. I ahve found that there is a lot of trial and error as I am starting up this process (I am still working on things a year later!) I am thinking towards the future when I'm going to want to redesign and not have any interuption of service for my members. I use .html pages and build. No dynamic pages.

Is there a way to have another style set build while still having the main set live, and I can go see the new template set?

In the same vein: is it possible to "hold" certain links? Can a link be unvalidated?

I hope these questions make sense.

Just view the templates dynamically using the t=<template_name> part in the url. When you're satisfied with it there, then you can try building it. It essentially should be the same thing.

Adrian

Hi,

Adrian hinted towards the answer. Basically develop your templates in a new directory, and then you can preview your work by going to page.cgi?t=new where new == the name of the directory.

You can modify a link and set isValidated to No, and it will effectively be hidden.

Cheers,

Alex
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