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brotherhood_of_LAN - 1:51 pm on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)


Time Saving Design :)

Since all the pages are going to have the same design, just have one stylesheet and use that on every page

For SSI, you can time save by including repeated content, like a "header" or "footer"

You could use SSI at its most basic like this

<--header.ext-->
<title>Your Unique Title</title>
<meta name="description" content="Your Unique Description">
</head><body>
<--top-and-logo.ext-->
unique content
<--site-map.ext-->

<--header.ext-->
Would be any headers,doctype or extra head tags you want, and your <html> and <head> tags and the link to your generic stylesheet.

<--top-and-logo.ext-->
Anything that is on every page that you want consistently displayed across pages

<--site-map.ext-->
Site map, could be a generic static site map, or if you are using middleware, you might want to customise what navigation is shown on each different page.

You can use the SSI to save file space and to save yourself work when re-vamping the site. Using SSI and CSS makes no difference to each other as the CSS is read by the browser, and SSI is done on the server before the CSS is read by the browser.

If you check out Nick_W's recent post about SEO/CSS you might want to move your unique content to below the <body> tag using absolute positioning in your stylesheet since your revamping the site.

/added
I was going to write more but I'm slow, gotta read above first :)


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