updating fast
I am in the process of redesigning my site and would like to make it so that if ever I want to update again it will be as simple as possible. So can someone help me out with these:
1. I need to be able update my navbar which will be on each page by odifying one document. SSI I hear you Cry (liek the rhyme?) 
) but my server doesnt support it (or have a cgi-bin) so are ther any alternatives?
2. I would like to change the coulours of links with underlines and onmouseover stuff with css but dont want the code on each page. I know this can be done externally but I dont know how. Could somneone show me the way to a decent tutorial and also what is the code to pull in a css file from another location????
Well, that's it unless you can think of ways of updating a site faster. If you fo, please tell me!!
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phyllis posted this at 20:25 — 13th April 2000.
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minton posted this at 17:22 — 14th April 2000.
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i am definitely not going to use frames. I do not like them at all. Thanks for the info on css though.
BTW, SSI is where you can call in a webpage (or cgiscript etc) from another page so they will be displayed together.
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RJ D'Angelo posted this at 20:24 — 14th April 2000.
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I think you should wsitch hosts then. Even Angelfire supports cgi!
Get signed up with Virtual Ave, they support it.
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minton posted this at 20:51 — 14th April 2000.
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yeah, but the domain i got was free a free .co.uk and free hosting and I WOULD like to chnage hosts but it costs (wait for it.....) £90 to get away from them!!!!! I didn't read the fine print till after I had signed up and still then I didnt care because I was not exeperienced with cgi and had no need for it. Now i do but cant use it through my site.
I have already signed up with free.prohosting.com.
Back to the subject. Is there a way to update the navbar by only changing one file??? I really need this!!
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AndyB posted this at 23:07 — 14th April 2000.
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Create a javascript file that uses document.write to write out the complete code for your navbar.
Save it as 'navbar.js'
In each html file, add
script language="javascript" src="navbar.js
/script
Then each succesive html page will get the navbar.js source code from their cache, and you only need to edit the single navbar.js file to change all the navbars
John Pollock posted this at 02:13 — 17th April 2000.
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Andy has the only solution left for you without cgi/ssi/etc. if you want to edit only one file.
If you don't have a ton of pages, you could also get an html editor with a global search & replace utility. That would make the same changes on every page. The downside is uploading all the pages each time though.
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nemes posted this at 11:51 — 17th May 2000.
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How about using a html editor such as Dreamweaver which allows for 'Templates' to be created which will update your whole site. It is expensive though.....
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Vincent Puglia posted this at 19:35 — 17th May 2000.
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Hi Tom,
Take a look at the code at my site, most if not all use some form *.js file.
(That, and you could post it at The Javascript Place forum -- I'm pretty sure the new moderator [clap, clap] would be willing to give you some free help
Vinny
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Lloyd Hassell posted this at 06:51 — 18th May 2000.
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Another solution would be to use ASP or PERL to generate your pages offline, then upload them manually. You could create a simple script which you execute to update each page of your site. You could also create new files.
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minton posted this at 18:56 — 18th May 2000.
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Ok, well, i didnt use any of your advice though i did learn alot, so thanks for that!!
The way i opted for, the most dumb but the way thast i decided to do was to use ultraedit and search each each pageto find and replace. I realised i only needed it to replace the sponsers and partners on each page so it workls fine, onkly about 20 pages to upload. Once (if)i move my site i will use ssi though, and a script if i can find one that i can write in a text boc like this and it will be uploadd to the page, i think if i learn perl i will write a bulletin board which only ican post to and noone can reply. It wont even look like a bulletin board.
But thanks anyway
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