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this is hacker news. and this post is questioning if its worth the effort to copy navigation to 8 pages. surely the obvious answer is to just include header/footer files (e.g. simple example in php: <? include('header.php');?>).

this way will just increase cost for his/her client down the road. Use even a super simple templating system (even if it is just including header/footer).

sure, using WP is overkill. but this is just silly to have actual plain .html files...

plus in a url http://example.com/about-us.html doesn't look as nice as http://example.com/about-us

(something like mod_rewrite could fix this, but if he/she is copy/pasting headers/footers i doubt that would be implemented...)



mod_rewrite? you must be kidding. How about an about-us/ folder with an index.html inside?

Tools give some people too much rope ...


I don't see this fixation with clean-urls.

One of the saners reasons is to avoid broken links

but I see broken links with with clean urls all the times. So don't think that is a good reason either.




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