Custom Includes

Have you ever struggled with html codebits from youtube, facebook, google adsense or other sites. You try to get it positioned in the page and you fight with the html to position it correctly.

We have a solution that make your life much easier and we call it Custom Includes.

It is not uncommon to use includes for menus or common page elements, but it is not normal to use it to deliver codebits to a single page.

The process of breaking code into separate files serves many functions, the most important of which is making the page much easier to manage with a WYSIWYG editor. Since the online editors all use javascript, adding java applets and scripts can be messy at best. Nested scripts within a script can cause a near matter anitimater interaction.

We allow you to create separate files that are converted to simple replacement strings %%custominc-filename%% which can be added to the WYSIWYG editor and parsed out during the page serving process. This lets you edit text files with a text editor the way they were intended to be edited and not on a webpage that wants to convert the html to visual elements.

Of course this can also be used to add the same element to many pages and edit one file to update all the pages as well.

As web developers it is nice to simplify a block of object code such as a youtube video embed script so that when the end user edits the page they do not screw it up. Oh how many times has that happened?

By isolating the code it prevents accidental screwups and mishaps. Even if a user deletes it from the page it is still intact in the custom includes section where the replacement string can be copied back to the page.

This also lets the novice position complex html blocks in pages just using the basic tools.

I can tell you how many call we get asking where to paste the html for google ads or other services. And how do you explain over the phone to a person that has no clue what html even is, to look for the div with a particular class name and place the code in between the div tags? It's like you are in a whole different world.

We do expect developers and webmaster to know that stuff, but that is just during the site building process. Once it's in the hands of an end user anything can happen and it does.

The remote custom includes allow isolated code to be simplified and portable. It prevents major disasters and the regeneration of codebits.

This is another one of the advanced developer features at pageBuzz.com that is really unexpected from a website hosting company. But here again we deliver unusual tools that have a huge impact on developing web pages.