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SSB : Simple Site Builder

Download SSB V1.1 (file: ssb.zip size: 26,107 bytes)

SSB builds simple web sites using templates and the rules about how tags within those templates should be replaced.

Usage: SSB

[-m <makefile name>]
[-r(emove extra spaces)]
[-f(orce remake)]
[<space separated file list to make>]

Default makefile name is 'makefile.ssb'

Following is a structure of the makefile:

<file contents>	::=	<header> <output file list>

<header>	::=	"InputDir = " <path> "OutputDir = " <path>

<output file list>	::=	<output file rule> [<output file rule>]

<output file rule>	::=	<file name> "=" <argument>

<argument>	::=	"file " <file name> \| "text " <text> \| <template>

<template>	::=	"template" <argument> "{" <template params> "}"

<template params>	::=	<template param> [<template param>]

<template param>	::=	<template tag name> ":" <argument>

Tag names in the template, should be places between starting ">" strings. ""

File names can contain ONLY RELATIVE path to the corresponding input or output directory. Text which contains space, '"', '=', '{', '}' or ':' characters should be placed in the double quotes. Two sequential double quote characters in the text will be replaced by one double quote character.

Comments start with "//"

The idea is to design a template (or pattern) how your web site should look and then for each page replace the title, body, menu, sub-menu, keywords or similar tags.

Here is a sample template (lets call it 'main.htm'):

<html>
<head>
<title>My Small Web Site - </title>
<meta name="Description" content="">
<meta name="Classification" content="">
<meta name="KeyWords" content="">
</head>

<body>

<h1></h1>



<hr>



</body>

Now you can describe your site map in the 'makefile.ssb' file:

// Makefile for Simple Site Builder

InputDir  = "c:/MySite/Templates"
OutputDir = "c:/MySite/LocalHome"

//*** Main Page

index.html = template file main.htm {
    title : text "Home"
    description : text "My home page"
    body : file "body.htm"
    menu : file "menu.htm" }

//*** Links Page

links.html = template file main.htm {
    title : text "Links"
    description : text "My favorite links page"
    body : file "links.htm"
    menu : file "menu.htm" }

TIPS:

If you are using complex directory structure it is usefull to put all references to your local files in the main template file as "images/image.gif". Later, you can replace root tag with "../" or "../../" or just leave it empty based on the location of you target file.

Remove extra spaces option is useful for minimizing output files size.

Use nested templates.