Duplicate Navigation Pane

How can I change them all at once?

[LorSor]

I have a small FrontPage site (26 pages) with each page showing all the links to all the pages in the website. Problem is, when I add a new page to the website, I have to alter the navigation pane on each page to include the new link.

How do I avoid doing this without loosing crawlability?

[cmarshall]

1) FrontPage -> Trash

2) Use Dreamweaver or GoLive. They have a template feature that propagates throughout the site.

[The_Hat]

When I used frontpage there was a thing called a "shared border" (I think) that was a way to create and manage one file for the navigation and have it display on every page of your site. I think all of this was taken care of on your local machine so it might be exactly what you are looking for... try a google for "frontpage shared borders" or better yet take a look in the frontpage help documents..

[LifeinAsia]

I don't know about FrontPage for designing it, but if you have a separate file for navigation that you include in each page, you only need to change that one file instead of every singgle page.

How you implement this depends on what appication(s) you have available for serving your pages (ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, etc.).

[LorSor]

How do the Dreamweaver templates and FrontPage shared borders fare with SE's though? Is all the code for the links contained in that page or elsewhere? I'm afraid that if I move all that code off-page, the crawlability of my page will decrease...

[jimbeetle]

Since you only have 26 pages it might be best to back up a bit and create a template with all of the common elements. It's quite simple, see the Frontpage help for instructions.

Or, you can use the included page function. First, create a new page with your navigation. Then, on each page, position your cursor where you want the content to appear. Choose:

Insert > Web Component > Included Content > Page

[LorSor]

Wow - no one here had the answer I later (on another forum) found. FrontPage is perfectly equipped to do this using the Dynamic Web Templates.

For the guy who said:
"FrontPage -> Trash"

Have you ever actually LEARNED FrontPage?

[Corey Bryant]

You might look into DWT (dynamic web template) as well. Borders rely on FPSE which are going away. If you can - upgrade to Expression. Frontpage listened (unfortunately) to web developers and created a new product that creates compliant code, but the FP bots (search, forms, etc) are no more. There are some add-ins that can be used but you will need to rely more on code for your website.

Expression Web also supports DWT as well.

-Corey

[cmarshall]

Have you ever actually LEARNED FrontPage?

Not recently. Why should I?

I apologize if I offended you. I was actually trying to be helpful, and I appear to have failed.

Nevertheless, you may want to check out the Adobe products...

[jimbeetle]

Wow - no one here had the answer I later (on another forum) found

What, "create a template" is chopped liver? ;-)

[The_Hat]

There are most likely far more elegant solutions available now but that is what i used back then.. I have since moved on to DreamWeaver 8. If i remeber correctly crawlability wasn't a problem for the site back then.. but if FPSE are unavailable then you could still probably use a serverside include.. most servers would allow that..

[Corey Bryant]

Keep in mind that this forum has [webmasterworld.com...] which would probably have been a tad more helpful.

The include page will work - it works locally. You might also need to go to Tools - Recalculate Hyperlinks if you make a lot of changes. But the include page works very similiar to DWT in that it is done locally before publishing

Here is a list also of FP components that requires FPSE: www.timeforweb.com/frontpage/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5894&PN=1 - hopefully you will find that useful as well.

-Corey