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I am a semi-experienced webmaster and I have a problem that I have come across. My experience comes from making small updates to our website. I am the marketing director for our company and unfortunately late last your our webmaster passed so his job was given to me. It is fairly simply to make the easy changes here and there but we have decided to open up a new site focused on a different side of our business. I started working on it and here is the problem I am having. On our current site the header, footer and left side are all set up so that I can go in and edit one file for each and it makes a “global” update. How do I set this up with the new site? What do I have to put on each individual page and on the actual footer and header files?
I have posted in another forum and all they tell me is to use CSS but they don’t explain how to do it. Also, I believe that CSS is not what is used in our current site. We use it but not with our header footer and side bar.
I know this is most likely a simple problem to fix but I’m clueless. Thank you for your help.
I believe you are referring to navigational sections as opposed to the markup. There are two ways to keep a single copy of those sections and maintain them all in one shot, the first being client-side using some form of WYSIWYG templating editor and the second being server-side technologies such as Apache SSI (Server-Side Includes) or a scripting language that does the inclusion, such as PHP includes.
If you can identify which technology is being used you might make your life a bit easier ;) When you open one of your main file documents to edit the information, what do you see where you normally expect to find the included code?
