wgen: Why another tool

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I could not find a tool that suited me:
I want to help others (like people in an organization) get on the web with some content. But I do not want to use to much time doing so.
Partial solution: Let the content writers use Frontpage or HoTMetaL or whatever tool they like, to write plain HTML-files.
Problems with partial solution:

All the pages end up looking a little different in design
Hard to maintain a navigation system
Hard to change design of all pages
Better solution:

Writers still write plain HTML-documents
Webmaster writes one template.html-file
In comes wgen and combines plain HTML-documents with this one magic template written by webmaster.
Problems with this better solution:

This solution fits one subset of all the interesting "let's get them on the web" situations, but will be wrong for most others.
Other problems? Yes, help me find them!

Updated monday October 16. 2000 at 07:46
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