Heather Wagamon <webgirl at wagtopia.com> writes:

> Hey Everyone
> What's the best way to create a website in order to minimize the amount of 
> pages you'll have to make changes on (like updating links...).  I was 
> thinking that as long as I kept the same format throughout the site... that 
> I could use CGI on the pages and have it call a .pm file that will have the 
> link info and such.  Then I would only have to update the .pm file.  Are 
> there any security risks in this?  I tried a sample and it worked fine 
> except that once in a while the entire page will tile over itself many many 
> times.  I'm not sure if that is a problem with my code or with my browser. 
>  Any ideas?

Well, CGI always has more security risks than static html, but
well-written CGI can be plenty safe enough.

On your tiling over itself problem, I'd suspect a problem in your CGI,
that is, that you're generating bad html.
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