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When to use Jigs
Note that the webpages created by
Jigs are static. This means that each page is created and saved to
your hard disk when Jigs is run; the pages are not created on the fly
whenever a browser asks for them. While this approach takes more
space and is not as dynamic, it is preferable for applications in
which each page will get a lot of hits before it is updated. Good
examples of when this is preferable over dynamics approaches include:
- Photo Albums
- Pictures don't change over time, and it is also unlikely that the
pages that they are on will have to change. New pictures can be
added quickly by appending them to the "end" of the album by
re-running Jigs. Jigs is smart enough to cut out costly steps if it
sees that they are redundant.
- Webpages on CD's
- Sometimes it is nice to be able to put webpages on CDs for
distribution. For instance, you can use Jigs to create webpages of
your family reunion and then give CD's of the output to your
family as presents. Analogously, this is nice for presentations, for
while many computers have some presentation program
(i.e. PowerPoint, etc.), there are sometimes version compability
issues between one computer and the next; on the other hand, virtually
all computers have a web browser, and hence are able to view
Jigs output.
- High Profile Websites
- If your website has a lot of traffic, it doesn't make sense (
computationally) to generate the same page over and over again. It is
much quicker to just read a file from the hard disk.
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