Other Issues
- Why use separate template engine when Wordpress for example has a perfectly functionable template system itself?
If you are going to use only Wordpress on your site and are happy with all the features it offers then please be my guest - Is a wordpress template and that’s that. But what if one day you decide that you need a forum on your site. And then you add a wiki, and a download directory and so on. Are going to build the template again and again or will you leave it to what looks “close enough”? Repetition of code (even if it’s markup code) only means one thing: tedious updates. This is where Template Blocks comes. You can define the templates you want to use outside the scripts you are using so updating them will become less fustrating - almost joyful one might say…
- How am I going to use Template Blocks offline?
Although Template Blocks can be used as a full-blown template engine - and many will prefer to use it as such, it was created with helping the web designer’s work in mind. In that regards t’s intended for use at the early stages of development where the user is forming the web templates from concept graphics. You’ll need to setup Linux with PHP and MySQL on your computer and setup a web server to work locally. Template blocks may not be a WYSIWYG editor and it’s certainly not a CMS but it can prove to be a valuable a web design tool.