Talk:Web template

Link not being kept

Dear All,

I have written a lot of articles on my blog www.templatesfactory.net/blog/ that adds to the explaination on Web Templates such as imporance of Web Templates, Using Web Templates, Advantages and Disadvantages of Web Templates but none of them have been kept and God know's who delete's them and fo what reason. This is the most recent one and I wouldlike this to be added definitely as a resource for this page templatesfactory.net/blog/2007/01/advantages_and_disadvantages_o.html

There are a lot of other articles on the same topic that can be found on www.templatesfactory.net/articles.html

Please add them as they add a real value to the readers

Regards Hasan Saleem —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hassansaleem (talk • contribs) 18:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC).

Hi Hasan Saleem, please note the external links section is intended for authoritative reference. Random personal blogs and sites selling products (such as the one you posted) are not particularly useful. In the past, others had abused the links section simply to advertise. The link to DMOZ is now there instead, so readers who are looking for advertising or blogs can easily find them through DMOZ. You are of course welcome to contribute relevant material to the text of the article itself. HTH. dr.ef.tymac 21:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

TAL/TALES/METAL missing

Somehow the very smart concept of Template Attribute Languages (I'm not the one who invented it, I just created the article) must be built in... --TobiasHerp 07:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Conflation of topics

This page conflates two fairly distinct topics. One is the simple "template" web page concept, meaning a page or set of pages which somebody else has prepared and made available to be used as a starting point for others who don't have the time or skills to achieve the same aesthetic or structural results. The other is the more complex "template" for programmatically generating HTML output, as more accurately described in web template system. While most of the content in this page refers to the latter, the Open Source Templates section and at least the DMOZ link are entirely about the former. PeterHansen 01:26, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Wrong Assumption?

Regarding separation of business logic and presentation: isn't the generic template structure entirely dependent on the business logic? Doesn't the business logic tell you what fields need to be displayed and included in the template? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.166.201.94 (talk) 09:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Missing Sections

A number of sections are either missing or have never existed. I do not have the time, energy, or even the knowledge to create and populate these sections, but they're being linked to by other Wikipedia articles.

Web template#Complex templates is linked to from Web template system#Server-side_systems

Web template#Template language is linked to from Web template system#Overview

And I have witnessed others floating around other related wikipedia articles, but as I do not have the time or the energy to append the article with these sections, I don't have the time (at least not right now) to find the other sections that I've noticed are missing. Swivelgames (talk) 07:45, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

HTML templates not included

Hey there! I'm new to Wikipedia, but I feel I can help to improve the article. I'm a web designer/developer so I know something about web templates :-)

Anyways, there's a type of templates that are not exactly meant for separating content from presentation. I mean the HTML templates that are basically coded as a ready website, but contain a fake content ('lorem ipsum dolor' texts and meaningless images). I believe these can be called templates as well, because what you do about them is just replacing the content while the layout stays the same. That's what the whole templates concept is about, right?

So what's next about it? Do I just update the article text of what? Or someone else will have to do it?

69.39.234.2 (talk) 12:48, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

It's a completely different type of template, and I don't think it should be in the same article, and not even sure it's worth mentioning. Yeah, there are templates for web pages. there are templates for word documents and CV's and Excel docs an dpowerpoint presentations, etc. I don't think they should have their own articles either. What would you say about them? "There are templates. You can modify them?" :-) --OpenFuture (talk) 07:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Merge?

Wondering if this article should be merged into Template processor and Dynamic web page. Not sure it really says anything meaningful on its own... Justinc (talk) 13:02, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

And also just discovered Template engine (web) Justinc (talk) 13:08, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Dynamic web pages are far broader than web templates, also template engines are broader than just web content. There are also web templates in the static sense, implying a boilerplate design for manual expansion. However there probably is scope for merging amongst purely web, purely template-based dynamic page descriptions that aren't specific to a particular implementation. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:21, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

agreed. Problem is all these template articles were created way back by someone writing OR, and they are a mess. Going for a mixture of drastic pruning, deletes, and rewriting to try and organise them... Justinc (talk) 16:32, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Awkward sentence

This sentence is awkward and unclear:

"These include 'inheritance' (based on principles of object-oriented programming); and the 'Templating and Generative programming', (consistent with the principles of MVC separation)."

Dougher (talk) 23:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

This article could use some examples....

Hi all,

I think we should supply this article with a few examples from the Template namespace to show how templates are used. 68.173.113.106 (talk) 15:00, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

No, because the meaning of "template" for a dynamically generated website is too different from the typical examples in the Template: namespace. A much closer analogy (although obscure) would be from the /skins directory of a MediaWiki installation. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC)